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 ...

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 ...

What-if analysis in Excel is a powerful tool that allows you to explore different scenarios and outcomes by changing input values in your formulas. This guide will walk you through the three primary ...

Excel can solve equations through several of its mathematical functions, but the single Excel tool that works on the largest variety of equations is the program's Solver Add-in. This tool reads an ...

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).

Modern measurement techniques allow researchers to gather ever more data in less time. In many cases, however, the primary or raw data have to be further analyzed, be it for the verification of a ...

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 ...

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 ...