Excel as a Soduko sheet.

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Howard Brazee

I created a do-nothing spread sheet to do Sudoko puzzles on.

I a 9x9 sheet with the bold boundaries at the proper place, and then
copied in the numbers from today's paper. I wanted these numbers to
be red. It would be even better if they were protected.

Today, I copied that matrix down below, so I had two visible puzzles,
one with only the original filled in, and the 2nd which I worked on.
This is my first Sudoko puzzle, so I don't know if this is a good way
to solve - but what I did was go through each blank cell, entering in
possibilities:
'348 '34 etc.

Then I kept editing cells, and when I got down to one digit, I made it
numeric.

Tomorrow, plan to solve tomorrow's newspaper Sudoko, clearing out the
spreadsheet and starting over.

What's the least tedious way of preparing tomorrow's puzzle?
 
Least tedious? Print it an use a pencil, if you want to do "on line
ones". Otherwise spring for the 8 bucks and pick up a handheld at Wally
World.
 
Howard

Google search for SUDUKO in Excel news groups brought up these

http://snipurl.com/sjgc



Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP




I created a do-nothing spread sheet to do Sudoko puzzles on.

I a 9x9 sheet with the bold boundaries at the proper place, and then
copied in the numbers from today's paper. I wanted these numbers to
be red. It would be even better if they were protected.

Today, I copied that matrix down below, so I had two visible puzzles,
one with only the original filled in, and the 2nd which I worked on.
This is my first Sudoko puzzle, so I don't know if this is a good way
to solve - but what I did was go through each blank cell, entering in
possibilities:
'348 '34 etc.

Then I kept editing cells, and when I got down to one digit, I made it
numeric.

Tomorrow, plan to solve tomorrow's newspaper Sudoko, clearing out the
spreadsheet and starting over.

What's the least tedious way of preparing tomorrow's puzzle?
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Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
 
Least tedious? Print it an use a pencil, if you want to do "on line
ones". Otherwise spring for the 8 bucks and pick up a handheld at Wally
World.
Click to expand...

I'd still like the ability to copy a grid with red numbers - and fill
in the rest of the grid with black numbers without coloring each
number one by one.
 
Howard Brazee said:
I'd still like the ability to copy a grid with red numbers - and fill
in the rest of the grid with black numbers without coloring each
number one by one.
Click to expand...

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Try an Excel newsgroup.
 
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