A challenging puzzle from FMWC – Financial Modeling World Cup. How to solve a Word Maze or a Word Search using Excel. This maze includes 20000 letters! You have 30 minutes to score 1000 points using Excel formulas or VBA. <\/p>\n

If you have any solution for finding words diagonally, leave a comment.<\/p>\n

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Table of Contents
\n(0:00) Welcome
\n(1:19) Strategy
\n(3:38) Skip the easy ones first
\n(4:07) How to search in Excel for a question mark
\n(7:00) Using VBA for the snaking words
\n(7:32) Dealing with the merged cells
\n(8:12) 300 points using the VBA
\n(9:30) Using CONCAT and a Data Table for Left to Right search
\n(13:00) Solving the Top to Bottom
\n(14:20) Reversing Text in Excel using VBA
\n(16:15) Time is up – 730 points<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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