The Solver add-in for Microsoft Excel is one of the most important, so we can understand the frustrations when users cannot get it to work as they hope. In older versions of Excel, folks had to ...

Solver allows you to use an Excel spreadsheet to easily solve problems with multiple variables. We'll look at a couple of examples to see what Solver can do and how easy it is to use. Solver is an add ...

Excel is incredibly powerful when your data is complete, but what happens when you need to solve for unknown variables? Enter Goal Seek and the Solver add-in, two tools that let Excel do the heavy ...

A popular add-on for helping Excel users creating optimization models has made its return to Excel 2008. Solver for Excel had been among the casualties of Microsoft’s decision to drop Visual Basic for ...

Along with Visual Basic for Applications, the scripting language used in many business-oriented spreadsheets, Excel also lost Solver when it was upgraded to be included in Office 2008. Since Solver ...

An optimization problem is one where you have to make the best decision (choose the best investments, minimize your company’s costs, find the class schedule with the fewest morning classes, or so on).

Microsoft's MacBU has announced that it is working to bring Solver to Excel 2008 as part of a future update. Today, the best option for people who need Solver is to run Excel 2004 and Excel 2008 ...

FrontLine developed the original Solver for Excel 2004, and developed the Excel 2008 version at the request of the Microsoft Mac Business Unit (Mac BU).Solver is a linear programming / analysis tool ...

If you use Word or Excel to edit a document or spreadsheet on your iPad, you can make use of add-ins. Here is how to install and use add-ins in Microsoft Word and Excel for iPad so that you can ...