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).

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 ...

Excel can solve equations through several of its mathematical functions, but the single Excel tool that works on the largest variety of equations is the program's Solver Add-in. This tool reads an ...

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).Solver is a linear programming / analysis tool ...