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 ...

From step goals to savings trackers, these seven Excel functions solve everyday problems in unexpected ways.

Excel has several tools for solving complex equations like those that often arise in circuit design. In this blog, I will deal with the simplest, called “Goal Seek.” The very basis of Excel is that ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel, wishing it could just do *that one thing* to make your work easier? Maybe you’ve spent hours manually replacing text, trying to filter data with ...

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 ...

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).

I'm using Excel's Solver utility to help us calculate a day's roster for one section of our business based on averaged demand for staff. I've got an array of possible shifts and a staff multiplier for ...