How to generate an uuid in google sheet?

Question

How to generate an uuid in google sheet (for exemple ccb8a660-91c9-a556-58e0-4fa7-229516872004).

Either with a macro? or a formula?

Answer 1

Try this if you just want a formula you can quickly drop in. The caveat here is that you won't have any alpha characters in the generated value, but these should be "good enough" for nearly any purpose regardless.

=RANDBETWEEN(10000000,99999999) & "-" & RANDBETWEEN(1000,9999) & "-" & RANDBETWEEN(1000,9999) & "-" & RANDBETWEEN(1000,9999)& "-" & RANDBETWEEN(1000,9999) & RANDBETWEEN(10000000,99999999)