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build a word search puzzle
Hi folks!
Anyone want to take a shot at this: My mother LOVES to do word search puzzles. Using Excel, I'm able to build the puzzle manually. Pretty easy, no big deal. I manually plug the words into the grid then I have a macro that fills the empty cells with random letters. I'm wondering if it's possible to have the words automatically get plugged into the grid. Say I have the list of words in a range, A1:A25. Then I can run a macro to have the list of words randomly placed into the grid. Each word gets broken down so that 1 letter is in 1 cell and of course the entire word must be in consecutive cells in one of the below patterns. The patterns can vary as some might know that are familiar with word search puzzles. The patterns can be: horizontal left to right horizontal right to left vertical top to bottom vertical bottom to top diagonal top to bottom diagonal bottom to top I know this asking for a lot and is a tough one to do, but if someone is willing to give it a go I'd really appreciate it. Thanks Biff |
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Hi Biff
just incase you're interested you can download a really good wordsearch game where you can add your own words etc from http://www.bigfishgames.com/download.../indexGws.html (there's proabably others but i like this one) ... it only gives you 1 hour of use with the demo version (fully functional - as far as i can tell) but that's plenty of time to create and print a number of games (also comes with heaps supplied). Cheers JulieD "Biff" wrote in message ... Hi folks! Anyone want to take a shot at this: My mother LOVES to do word search puzzles. Using Excel, I'm able to build the puzzle manually. Pretty easy, no big deal. I manually plug the words into the grid then I have a macro that fills the empty cells with random letters. I'm wondering if it's possible to have the words automatically get plugged into the grid. Say I have the list of words in a range, A1:A25. Then I can run a macro to have the list of words randomly placed into the grid. Each word gets broken down so that 1 letter is in 1 cell and of course the entire word must be in consecutive cells in one of the below patterns. The patterns can vary as some might know that are familiar with word search puzzles. The patterns can be: horizontal left to right horizontal right to left vertical top to bottom vertical bottom to top diagonal top to bottom diagonal bottom to top I know this asking for a lot and is a tough one to do, but if someone is willing to give it a go I'd really appreciate it. Thanks Biff |
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Biff, this is alsp not for excel, but this site has a lot of puzzles you can
make http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/ -- Paul B Always backup your data before trying something new Please post any response to the newsgroups so others can benefit from it Feedback on answers is always appreciated! Using Excel 2002 & 2003 "Biff" wrote in message ... Hi folks! Anyone want to take a shot at this: My mother LOVES to do word search puzzles. Using Excel, I'm able to build the puzzle manually. Pretty easy, no big deal. I manually plug the words into the grid then I have a macro that fills the empty cells with random letters. I'm wondering if it's possible to have the words automatically get plugged into the grid. Say I have the list of words in a range, A1:A25. Then I can run a macro to have the list of words randomly placed into the grid. Each word gets broken down so that 1 letter is in 1 cell and of course the entire word must be in consecutive cells in one of the below patterns. The patterns can vary as some might know that are familiar with word search puzzles. The patterns can be: horizontal left to right horizontal right to left vertical top to bottom vertical bottom to top diagonal top to bottom diagonal bottom to top I know this asking for a lot and is a tough one to do, but if someone is willing to give it a go I'd really appreciate it. Thanks Biff |
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Thanks, Julie and Paul!
I've searched the net several times and have looked at just about everything that's out there. I realize that my request is very difficult and isn't something you just whip up in 15 minutes but I figured someone just might like the challenge. It's way beyond my skills! Biff -----Original Message----- Hi folks! Anyone want to take a shot at this: My mother LOVES to do word search puzzles. Using Excel, I'm able to build the puzzle manually. Pretty easy, no big deal. I manually plug the words into the grid then I have a macro that fills the empty cells with random letters. I'm wondering if it's possible to have the words automatically get plugged into the grid. Say I have the list of words in a range, A1:A25. Then I can run a macro to have the list of words randomly placed into the grid. Each word gets broken down so that 1 letter is in 1 cell and of course the entire word must be in consecutive cells in one of the below patterns. The patterns can vary as some might know that are familiar with word search puzzles. The patterns can be: horizontal left to right horizontal right to left vertical top to bottom vertical bottom to top diagonal top to bottom diagonal bottom to top I know this asking for a lot and is a tough one to do, but if someone is willing to give it a go I'd really appreciate it. Thanks Biff . |
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