One programmer figured out a way to play a pretty good game using a program that almost everyone in an office has: Microsoft Excel.

Some people use Microsoft Excel to keep track of their budget, or to organize multiple schedules. This takes it a few steps farther. Redditor crruzi, (as found by Polygon) a programmer learning ...

A programmer has been able to successfully recreate the original Civilization game using nothing other than Microsoft Excel.

What if you could run advanced Excel analyses with no coding skills? Here's how Microsoft's Copilot in Excel could use Python to allow you to do just that.

The game is designed to work with Excel 2007, 2010 and 2013. It does not work on Mac versions of the spreadsheet program.