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 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 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 ...

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 ...

An Excel workbook called ProfitMax.xls provides a simple example of how to use Solver and the Comparative Statics Wizard. The Comparative Statics Wizard is an Excel add-in that walks the user through ...

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