Using Excel to choose a random name from a file list

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This tutorial shows how to use Excel to choose a random file. Specifically this tutorial chooses a province randomly for the game Crusader Kings 2.

Final file is here: http://www.mediafire.com/?1801hg8z8bgbp85

This shows how to easily make a text file of files within a directory.
It shows some simple regular expressions to strip out the unwanted information.
And then it shows how to get a random choice from Excel.



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