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 ...

Excel can solve for unknown variables, either for a single cell with Goal Seek or multiple cells with Solver.

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. This tool reads an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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).

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