July 2010 - The Excel Team Blog

We want to thank all of you who submitted entries for our Excel challenge. We had great entries that were well designed using Excel 2010 features, VBA and the user interface. Many of you are as passionate about Excel as we are and we thank you for your feedback. We extend our congratulations to the following winners: First Prize Winner : Andre L G Viol, United States Prize: Xbox 360 Elite Video Game Entertainment System and a copy of the Xbox 360 game: FIFA 2010 Description of the application : The...

This blog post is brought to you by Karen Cheng a Program Manager on the Excel team. In today's post, we'll show you how the classic arcade game Missile Command was created in an Excel spreadsheet. We also explain how it's made in this video . In this game, missiles drop from the sky, attacking the city. You must click on the missiles to destroy them. To play, you'll need - · To download the game ( here ) · To install Excel 2010, hot off the press last week. You can...