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 ...

SAMPLE PLANNING WITH EXCEL’S SOLVER TOOL In this article, we demonstrate a two-step process using the Excel Solver tool to (1) select strata boundaries and (2) determine the sample size needed to meet ...

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

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 ...

Microsoft's Mac BU and FrontLine Systems have announced that Solver for Excel 2008 is now available for the Mac as a free download. Frontline Systems developed the original Solver for Excel on ...

This comprehensive guide by Leila Gharani will walk you through the process of using COUNTIFS to solve various counting problems in Excel, covering everything from basic usage to advanced ...

If, on the other hand, you need a table of multiple transactions or currencies for multiple countries, you can use Excel to accomplish this task with the Excel Add-In called EUROTOOL.XLAM.