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 ...

Solver allows you to use an Excel spreadsheet to easily solve problems with multiple variables. We'll look at a couple of examples to see what Solver can do and how easy it is to use. Solver is an add ...

What-if analysis in Excel is a powerful tool that allows you to explore different scenarios and outcomes by changing input values in your formulas. This guide will walk you through the three primary ...

An Excel workbook called ISLMCS.xls provides a simple example of how to use Solver and the Comparative Statics Wizard to set up a standard short run macro model and then do comparative statics. The ...

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 ...

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 Solver ...

An Excel workbook called IntertemporalChoice.xls provides a more advanced example of how to use Solver and the Comparative Statics Wizard. The workbook sets up the Lucas-Rapping Intertemporal Labor ...

In the first part of this blog, Using Solver in Excel, Part 1, we started looking at what we can do with the Solver add-in to the Excel spreadsheet program. We looked at using Solver for the design of ...