Today, hardly anyone will remember when exactly the crossword puzzle came to us from foggy England. Crossword puzzles have become so firmly entrenched in our hobbies that it is already difficult for us to imagine how to spend our leisure time on the road without this rebus. Have you ever thought about how to make a crossword puzzle yourself and submit it to your relatives and friends or put it on the web? It turns out that today it’s not difficult to do this. Consider the ways in which you can make a crossword puzzle.
How to make a crossword puzzle?
Take the leaf in the cage. The first thing to start with is the so-called “brainstorming”. Pick up the words, and come up with questions for them (you can with humor, you can also in poetic form). Then select the word that is the longest from your list. It is from him that you will start building your crossword puzzle. Select the remaining words so that they coincide with each other in one letter. Arrange the words both horizontally and vertically. And be sure to number, carefully observing that the answers and questions are consistent with each other. When your crossword puzzle is completely ready, you should properly arrange it. Today, this can easily be done in one of the office computer applications.
How to make a crossword puzzle in Microsoft Word?
Launch the editor and go to the “Page Layout” tab. So that the page can fit many crossword puzzle cells, make the field values minimal by clicking Fields and then Narrow.
Create a label in the document by going to the "Insert" tab and selecting "Table" and "Insert." Now you should configure the created table depending on how many cells you need. If you haven't created a crossword puzzle template yet and are not yet aware of how big the crossword puzzle will be, it's not scary. Indicate the approximate number of cells, and during the compilation of the rebus, you can increase their number. Having created the plate in this way, fit it to the height and width of the page.
Fill in the words of your crossword puzzle in the cells, and simply fill the cells that are empty with black or any other color using the menu item “Borders and Fill”.
On the second page of the Word document, make a list of numbered questions for the crossword puzzle.
How to make crossword in Excel?
The checkered box of Excel is perfect not only for creating tables, but also for creating a crossword, scanword or similar rebus. Pre-create a crossword sketch with filled white and black squares. Separately write down (or type on a computer) definitions for words.
Now open Excel, create a new document and save it. The first thing you should start with is turning the rectangular cells of the application into squares. Suppose a crossword puzzle consists of 10 columns and 10 lines. Then select the cell range from A1 to J10 with the mouse. In the menu item “Format”, submenu “Cell size” select “Column width”. Enter a value of 5. Then select “Row Height” and enter “27”.
To draw a crossword puzzle in Excel, mark the borders of the selected cells. Click on the “All Borders” drop-down menu. All cells will be outlined in bold dark lines. By pressing the right button of the computer mouse, select "Cell Format", "Alignment", and then - "Center". Fill out the crossword puzzle by entering the words, and fill in the cells that remained empty with black.
Crossword Puzzle Program
Today on the Internet there are special programs that greatly simplify the process of creating a crossword puzzle. For example, you can take advantage of applications such as EasyCross, Decalion, Crossword Forge, CrosswordCreator, Baptist and others.
Well, with a ready-made crossword puzzle, you can do what you want. For example, put it on a social network or on your blog. By the way, in order to attract the attention of users to their brainchild, you should try a lot and create not just a rebus, but a thematic, humorous or crossword puzzle of some unusual form.