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 ...

On Windows, Solver may be added in by going to File (in Excel 2007 it’s the top left Windows button) > Options > Add-ins, and under the Manage drop-down choosing Excel Add-ins and pressing the ...

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 ...

This guide will walk you through the three primary what-if analysis tools in Excel: Scenarios, Goal Seek, and Data Tables, along with additional tools like the Solver add-in.

There are tough problems that every business faces, and they can slow things down, make budgets stretch, or put off decisions ...

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