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When you do this you can omit the IF function and use AND, OR and NOT on their own. From the Home tab, click Conditional Formatting New Rule. Next, select the “Use a formula to determine which cells to format” option, enter your formula and apply the format of your choice. Using the earlier Dates example, here is what the formulas would be. How to make an excel spreadsheetthat predicts lottery numbers. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.

Jul 01, 2010 Here's the scoop: I have an Excel Workbook with 5 years worth of pick-3 lottery data arranged in 4 columns: date (A4), pos 1 digit (B4), pos 2 digit (C4), pos 3 digit (D4). I'd like to build a table that would show how many drawings it's been since each digit has been draw in each position. According to some past lottery winners mathematical formulas based on probability and statistical analysis are capable of predicting the outcome of random events. As the lottery is a game where numbers are drawn randomly, then applying mathematics these type of formulas may be just what smart lottery players need to do. Open Microsoft Excel. Click into the first cell, A1, on the spreadsheet. Type a number into the cell. The number doesn't matter as all slices on the lottery wheel are going to be the same size. Press the 'Enter' key to drop to the cell below, A2. Type the same number into the cell.

May 09, 2005

Excel has a number of great tools for playing the lottery. You can use Excel to generate random numbers, to analyze past numbers to see if any numbers are 'hot'. You can also use Excel's functions to determine the odds of winning.

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The tips in today's show require the Analysis Toolpack to be installed. From the menu, select Tools - Addins, and then check the box for Analysis Toolpack.

Excel has some great tools for analyzing lottery numbers. If you believe that certain numbers can be 'hot', then Excel has two tools that will let you see which numbers are coming up more often than others.

I downloaded data from the Ontario lottery site showing winning numbers for the past 3 months.

Using cut and paste, copy the numbers into a single column of data. Add a heading in cell A1.

Select one cell in the data. From the menu, select Data - PivotTable. Click Next in Step 1 and Step 2. In step 3, choose the Layout button in the lower left corner. Drag the Number button from the right side of the Layout dialog and drop it in the Row area.

Drag the Number button to the Data area and it will appear as 'Sum of Number'. Instead of summing, you want to find a count of how many times each number has appeared. In the Layout dialog, double-click the Sum of Number button to display the PIvotTable Field dialog. In that dialog, choose to Summarize by Count.

Click OK to close the Field dialog.

You would like to have the report presented with the most popular numbers at the top. Double click the Number field in the Row area of the Layout dialog. This will present a different version of the PivotTable Field dialog. Choose the Advanced button.

In the Advanced Options dialog, choose to sort Descending by Count of Number.

Click OK three times to return to the Pivot Table Wizard step 3. Click Finish. The resulting pivot table shows that the numbers 43 and 34 have come up far more than the average number. If you believe that numbers can be hot, you might want to play 43, 34, 10, 8, 41, and 37.

Excel offers many ways to achieve any result. On the show, I also showed how to use Tools - Data Analysis - Histogram.

In column C, set up a Bin range. This is simply the numbers from 1 to 49.

From the menu, select Tools - Data Analysis - Histogram. Fill out the dialog as shown here.

In the results, the first two columns show how often each number has been selected. Columns G & H offer a sorted version with the most popular numbers at the top. The histogram suggests that you might want to play 43, 34, 10, 8, 2, and 12.

Scientists will argue that the lottery balls have no memory. If the machine is truly random, the fact that a number has come up recently does not mean that it will come up again. If you believe this, then you should select truly random numbers. Excel has a =RAND() function to help with this. If you enter =RAND() in a number of cells, you will have a variety of numbers in the range of 0 to 0.9999999.

If you use =RAND()*49, Excel will return numbers from 0 to 48.999999.

If you use =INT(RAND()*49)+1, Excel will return numbers from 1 to 49.

With the Analysis Toolpack installed, you can use the simpler =RANDBETWEEN(1,49) to obtain integers between 1 and 49.

Finally, is it even a good deal to play the lottery? Use the =COMBIN() function to find out. The Ontario lottery requires you to select 6 numbers out of a pool of 49 numbers. The formula in C7 is =COMBIN(49,6) and shows that there are 13,983,816 possible results. Thus, if the lotto jackpot is greater than 14 million as a cash option, then your payout would exceed the odds.

How to highlight winning lottery numbers in Excel worksheet?

To check a ticket if winning the lottery numbers, you can check it one by one number. But, if there are multiple tickets need to be checked, how could you solve it quickly and easily? This article, I will talk about highlighting the winning lottery numbers to check if win the lottery as below screenshot shown.

Highlight winning lottery numbers with Conditional Formatting in Excel

The normal Conditional Formatting feature can help you to deal with this task as quickly as you can. Please do the following steps:

1. Select the lottery numbers of the tickets, and then click Home > Conditional Formatting > New Rule, see screenshot:

2. In the New Formatting Rule dialog box, select Use a formula to determine which cells to format option in the Select a Rule Type list box, and then enter this formula: =COUNTIF($B$2:$G$2,B6)>=1 into the Format values where this formula is true text box, see screenshot:

Note: In the above formula, B2:G2 is the range contains the winning lottery numbers, and B6 is the first cell of the ticket numbers you want to highlight the winning numbers. Please change them to your own.

3. Then click Format button to go to the Format Cells dialog box, under the Fill tab, please select a color to highlight the winning lottery numbers, see screenshot:

4. And then click OK > OK to close the dialogs, and now, the winning lottery numbers have been highlighted as following screenshot shown:

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