Where To Find Excel Solver How To Load Solver

I plan to write a series of posts on this topic, but for starter here is a video on how to load Solver into your computer.

I strongly recommend that you make a model and test it by using Solver manually, before you use VBA.

Where To Find Excel Solver Download A Sample

This page shows how to control Excels Solver using VBA macros, and you can download a sample VBA application, that uses Solver.

Excels Solver is a strong tool to calculate andor optimize complex models.

How much ice cream to produce as a function of the weather forecast and day of the week.

You name it. Solver has many uses, and if it is a recurrent task, it can be a big advantage to make an application with VBA macros.

An application can also be used by others that dont know much about Solver.

I work at a cement plant and have made an application for raw mix proportioning, i.e.

To unzip, right-click and select decompress all or whatever Windows suggests.

The workbook was made in Excel 2003, so you probably need to change the references to Solver.

Besides macros to control Solver there are also examples on how to use Ranges, Arrays and UserForms with ListBoxes, ComboBoxes, TextBoxes, OptionButtons and CommandButtons.

To ensure that TextBoxes get numeric values only, there is a modified version of the class module described on this page.

The user controls the application with a right-click popup menu.

Solver is not installed automatically, when you install Excel - it is an option.

To use Solver it must be referenced as an AddIn in Excels spreadsheet part, and if you want to use it with VBA, it must also be referenced here.

The VBA reference is set from References in the VBA editors Tools menu.

If Solver is not on the list, you have to click Browse and find the folder Solver buried as a subdirectory to Microsoft Office in the Programs folder.

Click on File types and select Excel files (xls xla or xlsm xlam).

Select solver.xla, or solver.xlam if you use Excel 2007 or newer.

Before you use Solver, you must make a model with one or more target or objective cells and one or more adjustable cells, that will influence the values of the target cells.

Type A1A2 in cell A3 and start Solver from the menu.

Make A3 your target cell, the value must be 4 by adjusting cell A1.

You dont need to have a target cell - you could also make A3 4 a constraint.

Not surprisingly Solver is normally used for more complex stuff, and when it starts smelling of equations with several unknowns, it pays off to make Solver your friend.

Beware of If functions in cells - if there are too many nested IFs, Solver may suffer from indigestion.

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