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Fun and Games with Microsoft Excel

By: Ishank Badhani , Jun 28, 2010




If you are getting bored while working on spreadsheets, take a break and enjoy playing games in Microsoft  Excel  to fresh your mind.

Two games named Missile Command and Tower Defense are developed by some developers of  Microsoft excel team for Microsoft Excel 2010. Playing games would be a nice leisure activity for users when they get tired after continuously working on Microsoft Excel . Download Microsoft excel games.

 
These games get download in few seconds. Extract the and open excel file and to play games in Excel, you need to enable Macro. Don’t worry its very easy, when you open the game file, a dialog box automatically appear and ask you to enable macros. In case “Enable Macros” dialog box  does not appear then you can enable Macro manually.

Enable Marco in Windows Excel 2007 and 2010 : In Excel 2003, one can access the Macro features and settings from Tools > Macro. In higher versions such as Excel 2007 and 2010, Macro settings are available in Developer tab.

developer tab and Macro settingsin Microsoft excel

And to enable developer tab, click on the office button and  then on Excel options. Under popular tab, check Show Developer tab in the Ribbon and then click ok.

show developer menu in Microsoft excel

The games discussed above are  developed by Microsoft team .There are some third-party games for Microsoft Excel that you can enjoy playing. You can play classic DOS games in  Microsoft Excel as shown in the screenshots below ( Download Games for Microsoft Excel from here)

Mario game  in Microsoft excelPacman game in Microsoft excelPlay Sonic the hedgehog game in Microsoft excel




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  • ravi teja

    i have done everything as instructed.but,still i am unable to play games in excel.can u please help in solving this

    • http://innolea.com/ Ishank Badhani

      Did you enable Macro ? 

  • cmrogygo

    Add change following
    BAD CODE:
    Private Declare PtrSafe Sub Sleep Lib “kernel32″ ( _

    ByVal dwMilliseconds As LongLong)

    to GOOD CODE:
    VBA7 And Win64 Then

    ‘ 64 bit Excel

    Private Declare PtrSafe Sub Sleep Lib “kernel32″ ( _

    ByVal dwMilliseconds As LongLong)

    #Else

    ‘ 32 bit Excel

    Private Declare Sub Sleep Lib “kernel32″ ( _

    ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long)

    #End If