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 ...

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 ...

Excel can solve for unknown variables, either for a single cell with Goal Seek or multiple cells with Solver.

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

The popular Solver for Excel add-on has been redeveloped for Excel 2008 by Frontline Systems and Microsoft.