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 ...

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 ...

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).

The COUNTIFS function in Excel is a powerful and versatile tool for counting cells based on multiple criteria. It offers a significant advantage over the COUNTIF function, which is limited to handling ...

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 ...

While I'll always argue that SUM is my favorite and most-used Excel formula, there are plenty of other powerful functions included in the software. These features go far past using Excel as a digital ...

Navigating the world of Excel can sometimes feel like trying to solve a puzzle with missing pieces. If you’ve ever found yourself wrestling with the XLOOKUP function, only to be met with a chaotic ...

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 ...