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 ...

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).

You've probably heard of Microsoft Excel. The Microsoft Office staple is a software tool primarily used to assemble spreadsheets, pivot tables, and data analysis. The ...

The material below and on this web site was originally created in 2000 and published in The Journal of Economic Education Volume 32, Number 4 / Fall 2001 Pages: 397 - 397. The web site was originally ...