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 ...

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).

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 ...

If the Solver Add-in doesn't get installed automatically in Excel, please add it manually before clicking on the calibration buttons. a. Click the File tab, click Options, and then click the Add-ins ...

After years of meaning to learn how to use Excel Solver, this week I’ve finally made a start: I want to use it to work out the optimal way of distributing workspaces across capacities in a Fabric ...