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).

Imagine this: it’s Monday morning, and your team’s work schedule has already updated itself to reflect last-minute changes—no frantic emails, no scribbled edits, no wasted time. Sounds like a dream, ...

Excel is incredibly powerful when your data is complete, but what happens when you need to solve for unknown variables? Enter Goal Seek and the Solver add-in, two tools that let Excel do the heavy ...