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 ...

Minimize costs? Create a conference schedule with fewest early-morning sessions? In this excerpt from the book Data Smart, find out how to use Excel's free Solver add-in to do some data science ...

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 ...

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.

There are tough problems that every business faces, and they can slow things down, make budgets stretch, or put off decisions. It takes time to deal with these problems, and most businesses don’t have ...

An Excel workbook called ProfitMax.xls provides a simple example of how to use Solver and the Comparative Statics Wizard. The Comparative Statics Wizard is an Excel add-in that walks the user through ...

The popular Solver for Excel add-on has been redeveloped for Excel 2008 by Frontline Systems and Microsoft.