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).

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 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 ...

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 ...

The MOD function in Microsoft Excel lets you work out whether one number is divisible by another. If it's not, it tells you what's left over. For example, if you divide 3 by 2, the MOD function will ...

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 ...

Frontline Systems, developer of the Solver in Microsoft Excel, is shipping new Mac OS X and Excel 2011 compatible versions of Premium Solver Platform and five plug-in, large-scale Solver Engine.

If you are learning to use Excel, you may not have any problems because you may have come across a large number of codes and formulas that you need to learn or write. In this note, I present a tip ...