I don’t know how many of you have been “caught” by the Sudoku bug but, I’m sorry to say, I have been.
I have found that for the harder puzzles, it helps if I lay it out in Excel and set the font to allow double-row of the missing values in each cell. However…
My local newspaper publishes an electronic version daily which automatically populates the empty cells with the missing numbers then, as a number is placed in the cell, all other associated cells lose that number. This is a great aid and speed up play (where I don’t have to do the entries manually). I believe they use Java-script to create this.
I’d like to know if the same function can be incorporated in Excel with a Visual Basic script? Or some other way?
Anyone interested in how I set up my Excel to do this manually I can post the Excel file here (with permission to do so) so others can share my “PAIN”! 🙂