Game Creation in Excel: Step 6 of 6

Part VI: Protecting the worksheet

In a tutorial made up of six parts, teachers (or whomever) can follow easy steps to create simple games using Microsoft Excel. The game uses Excel's "conditional formatting" feature, and can be fairly complex if enough time/thought is put into it! I first saw this demonstrated at a VSTE (www.vste.org) conference. I made this tutorial for my students - I hope you find it useful.

These are the 6 steps (after you open Excel, of course):
1. Insert a background image
2. Resizing cells
3. Using a background color
4. Formatting text
5. Using conditional formatting
6. Protecting the worksheet

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• Excel
• teaching
• elementary
• games

[oline73oline73oline7]

This is a terrific series of tutorials! I just made one of these and I can't wait to do this with the kids. Thanks so much for sharing it.

[rhendersWLU]

What is the purpose of the game? To learn to recognize words? You don't really specify what age group you are targeting. Seniors or high school students could really pump this game up using VBA programming. Interesting use of cell shading and background pic though.

[furdeen]

thanks alot dude!

[SanadFeisal]

Thanks a lot for this amazing vid! Just cool!

[Ratandpigclub]

I love the videos, thank you so much!

[MatthewCarlo]

thats well good .but i had 2 do it with excel 2007..its harder!

[Mynotoar]

That's very useful, it's a shame this tutorial hasn't become popular :). Good on you mate, glad to have subscribed.

[Jonybig69]

Nice vid.

Tanks!

[0wn111]

Thanks.=)