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 ...

Microsoft Excel is a great Office application from Microsoft and it does not need any introduction. It helps every one of us, in many ways by making our tasks simpler. In this post we will see how to ...

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 ...

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).

Stratified mean-per-unit sampling is a key tool used by auditors. The popularity of this statistical procedure arises from its unique ability to produce trustworthy ...

Microsoft Copilot for Excel creates a separate check tab that checks row counts per source, helping you spot missing or extra ...

A couple of weeks ago, we asked you what you wanted to know about Office 2011, the latest update to Microsoft’s venerable software suite. (It goes on sale this week.) Based on our own research and ...

When it comes to spreadsheets, many think Excel is the only game in town. But what if I told you there is a powerful, free alternative hiding in plain sight? LibreOffice Calc is a free open-source ...

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 ...