MS Access: Group By: Allow random selection of value in a field

[Guest]

In a group by query, allow for option in the "Total" row for random selection.

I.e. Access will choose a random value from a grouped field.

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[Phil]

In other words, with things like this in the TOTAL row,

FIRST, (find the first value of the group)
LAST, (find the last value of the group)

You are looking for effectively
RANDOM, (find a random value of the group)

The easiest way I could think of would be to add one more field to the
underlying query (if you are using a table, just create a query from
that table), Selector:RND(), and then use FIRST or LAST on that field.

Make sense?

Phil