Sep 22, 2025 · When working with data in Excel, there are a number of ways to generate a GUID in Excel. If you need to generate a GUID quickly and don’t mind using an external service, the …

Dec 7, 2025 · While Excel doesn’t natively generate GUIDs, you can automate this process using VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). This guide will walk you through creating custom VBA functions to …

We’ll walk you through five unique methods to generate reliable identifiers—ranging from auto-incrementing numbers to complex combinations of text, dates, and even timestamps.

Mar 11, 2024 · Office Scripts in Excel is an automation alternative to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Macros are still recorded as a series of actions, but now, these steps are performed using …

Jul 20, 2023 · Often you may want to generate unique identifiers for values in a dataset in Excel. The following example shows exactly how to do so. Suppose we have the following list of basketball team …

May 4, 2024 · To absolutely ensure you have no duplicates in the list, you can use the Remove Duplicates tool from the Data tab of the ribbon. Or, if you are using Excel 2021 or later or Excel in …

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Sep 2, 2023 · One of our readers reached out with a common problem: they needed a unique identifier for each order in their Excel file. They stumbled across the concept of GUIDs but were unsure how to …

Nov 18, 2025 · In complex datasets, the ability to assign a consistent and reliable label to each record is paramount for efficient data management and analysis. These labels, known as unique identifiers …

In this tutorial, we'll explore the use of unique identifier formulas such as UUID and GUID to generate these identifiers in Excel. Introduction to unique identifier formulas such as UUID and GUID