![]() ![]() It’s quite cool and has been a popular download, but one thing about the spreadsheet that I wanted to see if I couldn’t improve upon was just how complicated it is. Dan’s spreadsheet was great in that, unlike many of the Sudoku solving spreadsheets out there, it didn’t use any VBA or other scripting to do the work of solving the puzzles, and relied instead on the iterative calculation feature of Excel. A while back, a fellow PM on the Excel team, Dan Cory, wrote a spreadsheet for solving Sudoku puzzles using Excel formulas and made it available on Office Online (here). For those of you who don’t already know, Sudoku is a type of logic puzzle (that I was completely addicted to about three years ago) that requires you to place the numbers 1-9 into a grid obeying certain rules (lots more information on Sudoku is available on the web). The spreadsheet can be found in the attachments at the bottom of this post. Today’s author, Charlie Ellis, a Program Manager on the Excel team, shares a spreadsheet he built in Excel for solving Sudoku puzzles. ![]() Building a Basic, Understandable Sudoku Solver Using Excel Iterative Calculation – Part 1/2 by Diego Oppenheimer, on Septem| 0 Comments | 51 ![]()
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