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 ...

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 ...

If you use Word or Excel to edit a document or spreadsheet on your iPad, you can make use of add-ins. Here is how to install and use add-ins in Microsoft Word and Excel for iPad so that you can ...

Many of them are backward- and forward-compatible, but check the system requirements before you download anything. Note that newer isn’t always better: Many of the ...

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 ...

Install add-ins by downloading and then using the Add-Ins Manager to install: keyboard shortcut alt, t, i. The latest FRED version is available in the Microsoft App Store (from Excel, Insert --> Get ...

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).