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.

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 ...

In designing the spreadsheet optimizer that is bundled with Microsoft Excel, we and Microsoft made certain choices in designing its user interface, model processing, and solution algorithms for linear ...