Excel Macro Fun

In this post we see how to create a fortune wheel game in Excel using VBA macros. The wheel is made of grouped pie shapes. We learn here how...

In a previous post we saw how to create a digital timer in Excel using VBA macros ( see that post here ). In that example we used the OnTime...

In this post we will create a game to find pairs of geometric shapes in Excel using VBA macros. It is a good example to practice working wit...

In this post we see how to create a free-form crossword puzzle in Excel using VBA macros. The program follows the same logic of the word sea...

In this post we recreate the Arcade Pong game in Excel using VBA macros. Shape objects are used for the two paddles and the ball. Movement i...

There are many different ways to solve a Sudoku puzzle with a computer. A previous post explained how to solve Sudoku puzzles with pencil m...

There are a few ways to track the position of the mouse cursor in Excel. However, if we want to react to mouse movement, we need to set a ro...

Excel Word Search Pro is the ultimate word search generator for Microsoft Excel that allows to fully customize word search puzzles to create...

Excel Circle Packing is a fun VBA application to play around with circles and try to fit them all inside the smallest possible square in Exc...

There are several ways to import data from Google Sheets into Excel. In this post we review five different methods to import data from Googl...

Excel PixelArt Puzzle is a VBA program that converts a pixel art representation created in Excel into a puzzle. It does so by creating pictu...

There are many different types of shapes in Excel. This post shows how to design diagrams to join the dots and solve it adding Excel free-fo...

We can easily customize the Excel ribbon manually and hide certain tabs or add new tabs and buttons. However, the customization does not per...

Creating a calculator app is a great example to practice UI design and logic programming. In this post, we see how to do that in Excel using...

In a previous post , we have seen how to generate a maze in Excel using VBA macros and following the randomized depth-first search algorithm...

What time is it? Learn how to create a classic analog clock in Excel using VBA macros. We use shapes to create the frame and other component...

Do you like logic games? In this post we see how to create nonograms in Excel using VBA macros. The macros described here and the file attac...

Exporting data from Excel to Google Sheets can be automated with VBA macros. In this post we see how to set up a Google spreadsheet to recei...

Yes, it's possible! In this post we see how to create Excel macros in Google Sheets, and more specifically, we will compare the two lead...

Match Pairs is a fun game and great exercise for your brain. In this post we learn to create the game in Excel using VBA macros. As an examp...

In this post we see how to create a standalone Excel application or form using VBA macros. The application is built on a UserForm that will ...

Adding a drop-down to a cell in Excel (also known as validation) is fairly straight-forward. But adding interdependent drop-downs is slightl...

Come along to see 10 different ways to run a VBA macro in Excel. This could be a recorded macro, or a macro you’ve created or copied into a ...

Have you ever played Candy Crush? In this post we see how to create the game of Candy Crush in Excel using VBA macros. It’s all about moving...

There has been some interest and several questions around the macros used to generate and solve Sudoku puzzles published in this blog. In th...

Stuck with a difficult Sudoku? Get Excel Sudoku Solver and learn the principles of solving Sudoku puzzles in Excel using VBA macros. The sol...

Matrix digital rain is the programming code featured in the Matrix series. In this post we see how to create the Matrix digital rain in Exce...

In a previous post we have seen how to create the Tic Tac Toe game in Excel using VBA macros. In this post, we will leverage that VBA proje...

Such a great game! In this post we learn to create the Snake game in Excel using VBA macros. There are many Excel versions of the Snake game...

In this post we see how to create the Game of Life in Excel using VBA macros. The universe of the game of life is a 2D grid of cells that ca...

Let's see how to leverage a classic algorithm to create a maze in Excel using VBA macros. The method used to generate the maze follows t...

Classic game! In this post we see how to create the Tic Tac Toe game in Excel using VBA macros. Despite its simplicity, Excel Tic Tac Toe is...

Excel Sudoku Pro is an improved version of the Excel Sudoku Generator posted in this blog a couple of years ago ( Excel Sudoku Generator ). ...

In this post we see how to create the game of Geometry Dash in Excel using VBA time events to generate movement of a shape object along a di...

In this post we learn to make the famous Minesweeper game in Excel. It is an excellent opportunity for VBA beginners to understand FOR and D...

This post shows how to create the Sink the Fleet Battleship game in Excel. It is a good example to work with VBA formatting, loops and con...

In this post we see how to create a fun game inspired in Rubik’s Cube with Excel VBA. It’s a very simple macro that gives a chance to go thr...

Check out the new Word Search Pro for Excel! In this post we see how to build a Word Search generator in Excel. It’s based on very simple VB...

In a previous post we learned to move objects in the Excel worksheet. Here we’ll use the same technique to move text boxes containing lette...

In this post we see how to move shapes in a worksheet. This can be useful to build animated spreadsheets, but we will rather create some fun...

In this post we code a simple game with movement in Excel. Moving things this way around the worksheets may not be quite necessary for offic...

Find an updated version in this post from Excel Macro Business . In this article we look at a simple way of automatically creating...

In this post we see how to create Sudoku puzzles with Excel VBA macros. Excel Sudoku Generator creates completely random puzzles with three ...