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 ...

Go to the File tab, select Options, then Add-ins. Click Manage and select Solver Add-in to install it. Using Solver: Define the target cell that contains the formula you want to optimize.

There are tough problems that every business faces, and they can slow things down, make budgets stretch, or put off decisions ...

Because Excel 2008 lacks VBA support, Frontline has redeveloped Solver using AppleScript. As a result, Solver now runs as a separate application outside of Excel, rather than as an add-on inside ...