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 ...

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

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).