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 ...

Microsoft Excel is a great Office application from Microsoft and it does not need any introduction. It helps every one of us, in many ways by making our tasks simpler. In this post we will see how 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 ...

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 ...

If you are looking to improve your Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and data analysis skills you may be interested in this Advanced Excel Tips & Tricks tutorial from the team over at SSIT. Mastering ...

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).

Like General Patton's famous promise to the Philippines during World War 2, Microsoft's MacBU is telling Excel wielding Mac users that the Solver add-in will be making a comeback. Solver implements ...