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Building a Basic, Understandable Sudoku Solver Using Excel Iterative Calculation – Part 1/2 

Today’s author, Charlie Ellis, a Program Manager on the Excel team, shares a spreadsheet he built in Excel for solving Sudoku puzzles.  The spreadsheet can be found in the attachments at the bottom of this post. For those of you who don’t already know, Sudoku is a type of logic puzzle (that I was completely

Unusual (but cool!) Uses of Excel 

Many of you who have been using Excel for a long time have most likely seen some of the creative, interesting, and rather unusual uses of Excel that people have conjured up.  I’m talking about things like writing the Pac-Man game completely in Excel, stuff you wouldn’t expect to see in a critical business application like Excel,
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Data Mining In Excel 

One of the technologies available in SQL Server Analysis Services is data mining. We have just released a set of add-ins for Excel (“The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins for Microsoft Office 2007”) that allow users to take advantage of SQL Server 2005 predictive analytics in Office Excel 2007.  The download includes two components for
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2007 Microsoft Office System Primary Interop Assemblies 

Today we have the first of two guest posts from Patrick Smith, a program manager on the Office Programmability team. Writing managed code against the 2007 Microsoft Office System products requires the use of an interop assembly. Just as we did with Microsoft Office System 2003, we are providing primary interop assemblies with the new