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).

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 ...

In the first part of this blog, Using Solver in Excel, Part 1, we started looking at what we can do with the Solver add-in to the Excel spreadsheet program. We looked at using Solver for the design of ...

Many of them are backward- and forward-compatible, but check the system requirements before you download anything. Note that newer isn’t always better: Many of the ...

We all can admit that Microsoft Excel is the best tool in its class, but there are ways to improve it with some cool and free Excel add-ins from the store. Some of these add-ins do basic things, while ...

Add-ins are special files that provide additional functionality. After downloading an add-in file, the Add-ins Manager must be used to install it. Add-ins files have extension .xla or .xlam (for Excel ...

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 ...