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 ...

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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 ...

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).

While Microsoft Excel is one of the most powerful spreadsheet applications, it’s also the most intimidating tool in the Microsoft Office suite. If you’ve never used Excel before or are just a bit ...

A popular add-on for helping Excel users creating optimization models has made its return to Excel 2008. Solver for Excel had been among the casualties of Microsoft’s decision to drop Visual Basic for ...

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Q. ChatGPT-4o was released in May 2024, and I heard it can interact with documents. Does this apply to Excel documents? A. In January 2023, I wrote my first column on ChatGPT for the JofA, and I was ...

Excel's data validation feature is more versatile than you might think. Learn how to use literal values, input values, list values, and even formulas to restrict input date values using data ...

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