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 ...

Improve audit sampling efficiency with Excel’s Solver tool Artificial intelligence capability can significantly reduce the time and effort auditors devote to sampling estimation tasks.

For Excel, you need to install the Solver add-in (go to the Excel Options dialog, select Manage Add-Ins, and select the Solver Add-In). You might also enjoy OpenSolver.

On Windows, Solver may be added in by going to File (in Excel 2007 it’s the top left Windows button) > Options > Add-ins, and under the Manage drop-down choosing Excel Add-ins and pressing the ...

FrontLine developed the original Solver for Excel 2004, and developed the Excel 2008 version at the request of the Microsoft Mac Business Unit (Mac BU).

Along with Visual Basic for Applications, the scripting language used in many business-oriented spreadsheets, Excel also lost Solver when it was upgraded to be included in Office 2008. Since ...