In the Add-Ins available box, select the Solver Add-In check box, and then click OK. If Solver Add-in is not listed in the Add-Ins available box, click Browse to locate the add-in. If you get a prompt that the Solver add-in is not currently installed on your computer, click Yes in the dialog box to install it. After you load the Solver add-in, the Solver button is available on the Data tab. Aug 30, 2008. Frontline Systems, the original Solver developers, announced along with Microsoft on Friday that Solver for Excel 2008 is back, free and immediately available for download. (For Excel 2011 Click Here)Below are answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Solver for Mac Excel 2008.Why wasn't Solver included in Excel 2008 as shipped by Microsoft?Solver wasn't included with Excel 2008 because it used VBA for its user interface, and in Excel 2008 Microsoft made a decision not to include support for VBA. Solver also relied on the Excel C API while solving, and the C.
Install the Excel Data Analysis Tool Pack
Which version of Excel do you have installed on your computer?
Excel 2003 Load the Analysis Toolpak
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Excel 2007 Load the Analysis Toolpak in Excel 2007 The Analysis ToolPak is a Microsoft Office Excel add-inprogram that is available when you install Microsoft Office or Excel. To use it in Excel, however, you need to load it first.
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Excel 2010 Load the Analysis Toolpak in Excel 2010 Note: it is possible that the Analysis ToolPak was loaded when you originally installed Excel. To check this see if Data Analysis is listed under the Data tab. The Analysis ToolPak is a Microsoft Office Excel add-inprogram that is available when you install Microsoft Office or Excel. To use it in Excel, however, you need to load it first.
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Excel for the Mac I do not use a Mac, so I'm don't know for sure how the ToolPac for the Mac works. However, here are some options you can try. (I welcome your comments about how helpful this is.)
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Download Solver Excel Mac 2008 Free
Solver for Microsoft Excel 2008 for Macintosh is available and you can download it, free, right now. It was our way of re-introducing ourselves to the Mac community. This version of Solver is a Frontline Systems product and is supported by us -- but we owe a big THANK YOU to Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit for (i) asking us to do this and (ii) supporting our efforts intensively with AppleScript help, QA testing, and localization.
Frontline Systems developed the original Solver for Excel on both Macintosh and Windows. For many years, we've offered Solver upgrades for Windows users, that have gotten more and more powerful over time -- but we haven't been active on the Mac. We're now applying more development resources to the Macintosh, motivated by the Mac's resurgence in the market and the move to Intel processors. But the catalyst for this move has been Microsoft's Mac Excel team.
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Solver for Mac Excel 2008 looks and behaves very much like Solver for Excel 2004. |
If you open a workbook with a Solver model that you created in Excel 2004, or in most other versions of Excel, the model will appear automatically in this dialog -- you can just click Solve.
Read the FAQ to learn how Solver for Excel 2008 was developed, special considerations in using this Solver versus the one in Excel 2004, and what to expect in the future.
Download Solver Add In Excel
What You Need
To use Solver, you must have Excel 12.1.2 or later. To check your version, start Excel and select About Excel from the Excel menu. You can get 12.1.2 three ways: (i) use Microsoft AutoUpdate, which runs weekly by default if you've opted in; (ii) start Excel and select Check for Updates from the Helpmenu; (iii) to download 12.1.2 manually, go here and click Downloads at the top of the page. If you're starting from 12.1.0, you must install 12.1.1, then install 12.1.2.
You may also be interested in:
- Try our Solver Tutorial to learn more about building Solver models and getting solutions.
- Premium Solver Platform for Mac offers far more power, speed and flexibility than the Standard Excel Solver while allowing all your existing models, even your VBA code, to be used as-is.
- If you are a developer of optimization or simulation applications, check our Solver SDK Platform. It's available for Windows and Linux -- but contact us for news about availability of the SDK for Mac OSX.