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 ...

The SOLVER Add-in from FrontLine Systems that comes installed with Microsoft Excel is a powerful tool for linear and non-linear spreadsheet model optimization. However, automating the Solver via VBA ...

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 ...

A common question in Excel is "I have a list of numbers and I want to see which of them add up to a specific total". This is something most people think should be fairly trivial to achieve in Excel.

Today’s author, Charlie Ellis, a Program Manager on the Excel team, shares a spreadsheet he built in Excel for solving Sudoku puzzles. The spreadsheet can be found in the attachments at the bottom of ...