Have questions or feedback about Office VBA or this documentation? Please see Office VBA support and feedback for guidance about the ways you can receive support and provide feedback. Each function corresponds to an action that you can perform interactively, through the Solver Parameters, Solver Options, and Solver Results dialog boxes of the Solver add-in. First navigate to the Developer tab and select Excel Add-Ins. The following functions can be used to control the Solver add-in from VBA. The Solver Add-In is enabled through the Developer tab. It is developed and maintained by Andrew Mason and students at the Engineering Science department, University of Auckland, NZ. Our products include Lindo API, LINGO, and WhatsBest for Excel. And I'd like to add: if OpenSolver would work fine, please tell me that.-OpenSolver is an Excel VBA add-in that extends Excel’s built-in Solver with more powerful solvers. We offer solvers and a featured environment for Linear Programming, Nonlinear Programming, Integer Programming and Global Optimization models.
#ADD SOLVER EXCEL SOFTWARE#
If Solver does not appear under Available References, click Browse, and then open Solver.xlam in the \Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\Library\SOLVER subfolder. LINDO Systems develops software tools for optimization modeling. In the Visual Basic Editor, with a module active, click References on the Tools menu, and then select Solver under Available References. In the Add-Ins dialog box, select Solver Add-in, and then click OK.Īfter you have enabled the Solver add-in, Excel will auto-install the Add-in if it is not already installed, and the Solver command will be added to the Analysis group on the Data tab in the ribbon.īefore you can use the Solver VBA functions in the Visual Basic Editor, you must establish a reference to the Solver add-in.
#ADD SOLVER EXCEL HOW TO#
Now we demonstrate how to use Excel spreadsheet modeling and Solver to find the optimal solution of optimization problems. Major spreadsheet packages come with a built-in optimization tool called Solver.
In the Manage drop-down box, select Excel Add-ins, and then click Go. Spreadsheet Modeling and Excel Solver A mathematical model implemented in a spreadsheet is called a spreadsheet model. In the Excel Options dialog box, click Add-Ins. Before you can use the Solver VBA functions from VBA, you must enable the Solver add-in in the Excel Options dialog box.Ĭlick the File tab, and then click Options below the Excel tab. OpenSolver is an open source Excel add-in that allows spreadsheet users to solve their LP/IP models using the COIN-OR CBC solver.