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 ...

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).

Have you ever faced the daunting task of identifying and prioritizing risks in a project, only to feel overwhelmed by the sheer complexity of it all? Whether you’re managing a multi-million-dollar ...

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 has lots of engineering-related applications, and here's yet another: Creating traceability matrices to stay on top of Contract End Items (CEIs) for large projects. In large projects, ...

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 ...

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 ...