If you open a workbook with a Solver model that you created in Excel 2008 or Excel 2004, your model should automatically appear in the Solver Parameters dialog - you can just click Solve. Yes, they should work without any changes. What about my Solver models created in Excel 2008 or earlier - will they work?
Since this Solver is a free download, please understand that we're here to help, but our commercial (paying) customers come first. You can contact Frontline Systems at or by phone at 77 during normal business hours, Pacific time (GMT-7). Who do I contact if I need technical support for Solver? The Solver computational engine runs as a separate application outside Excel, rather than as an add-in inside Excel. Solver uses Apple's new Scripting Bridge technology to "talk to" Excel when you are solving a problem. Solver's user interface is now written in VBA. How does this new Solver work with Excel 2011? Excel workbooks containing Solver models and VBA macros controlling Solver can be created in Windows and used on the Mac, and vice versa.
Solver for Excel 2011 for Mac matches the functionality and user interface of Solver for Excel 2010 for Windows. Its performance is greatly improved, especially on linear problems with integer constraints. Its new features include an Evolutionary Solver, based on genetic algorithms, new multistart methods for global optimization using the GRG Nonlinear Solver, a new type of constraint called "alldifferent," and new reports. Solver is substantially improved in Excel 2011, compared to Solver for Excel 2008.
You do not have to download and install Solver from this site - simply ensure that you have the latest update of Excel 2011 (use Help - Check for Updates on the Excel menu). IMPORTANT: Starting with Excel 2011 Service Pack 1 (Version 14.1.0), Solver is once again bundled with Microsoft Excel for Mac. How is Solver for Excel 2011 different from Solver for Excel 2008? You'll want to make sure that the site on which you find the files appears reputable and that the files are for the same version of Excel that you are using.Below are answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Solver for Excel 2011 for Mac. You could also do a search on the Internet for the names of the files that make up the Analysis ToolPak.
If they are not on your system, or if you are missing some of them, then you can copy them from someone else's machine-provided that person is using the same version of Excel you are. If you locate the files on your system, but they are not in the proper directory, you can copy them all there. This particular path is for Office 2003 the "Office11" portion of the path will change depending on the version of Excel you are using.
You need all four of these files to use the full functionality of the Analysis ToolPak they should be located within the following default installation directory:Ĭ:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\Library\Analysis (Use the Windows Search function to look for them, while Excel is closed.) In that case, you should check to see if these four files are on your system. The easiest way to do this is with the Office Setup program, but that won't do you any good if you don't have the Office CDs. If the Analysis ToolPak is, indeed, not listed in the Add-ins dialog box, then you need to install it. If the Analysis ToolPak is listed in the dialog box, then simply select the check box beside the add-in, click OK, and you can start to use it. If you don't activate the add-in, you can't use it.) The easiest way to check is to simply display the Add-ins dialog box by choosing Add-ins from the Tools menu. (Installation is only one step in using the Analysis ToolPak. The first thing you will want to do is make sure that it isn't already installed and just not activated. Karen is wondering if there is any way to get this add-in without the CDs. She needs the Analysis ToolPak add-in for a school project, but she cannot find her Microsoft Office CDs.