Solver allows you to use an Excel spreadsheet to easily solve problems with multiple variables. We'll look at a couple of examples to see what Solver can do and how easy it is to use. Solver is an add ...

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

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 ...

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

Back in 2009, I wrote a post about Excel's Solver Add-In, which enables you to essentially reverse engineer an excel spreadsheet. It allows you to take an existing spreadsheet, set a target for the ...