Load the Analysis Toolpak. The Analysis Toolpak is an Excel add-in program that is available when you install Microsoft Office or Excel (See later for instructions for installing Analysis Toolpak on a Mac). 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.
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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.
- Mac OSX: /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Add-Ins. The Excel Solver is a product developed by Frontline Systems for Microsoft. OpenSolver has no affiliation with, nor is recommended by, Microsoft or Frontline Systems. All trademark terms are the property of their respective owners. Installing Solvers on Excel for Mac 2016.
- Solver for Excel 2011 1.0 for Mac is available as a free download on our software library. Our built-in antivirus checked this Mac download and rated it as virus free. Solver for Excel 2011 for Mac lies within Business Tools, more precisely General.
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.
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.
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.
A reader of mine Stephen Chan asked me some time ago how to download the excel solver add in for 2003, 2007 and 2010, I didn’t have the files for windows OS and Mac back then until now that I was solving a linear programming problem which required solver add-in for excel to solve.
With my ordeal searching for how to download and install Microsoft Excel Analysis Toolpak Add-In I thought that I should also share the Excel Solver add-in download and installation with you. I know that many people are vigorously looking for this Microsoft Excel Solver Add-In and many have probably given up the search and have gone ahead to buy and install a new Microsoft Office suite.
Microsoft excel solver add in is basically used in solving a range of mathematical and statistical problems. It is a particularly handy tool for those of us in business school. If you take classes like Business Statistics, Managerial Economics and the introductory College Algebra, you are definitely going to have Microsoft Excel Add-in installed assuming you don’t have it installed already.
You might ask how do I know if my current Microsoft office suite does not have solver add-in, you will know if when you try to load it, you get an error dialog that the following files are missing:
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Okay enough of the dribble, let’s get down to practicals. Now I am going to show you how to download and install Microsoft Office Excel Solver Add In:
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Click here to download: Excel Solver Add-In
Go to your download folder or the directory on your computer where you downloaded the file above. Unzip the zipped folder by right clicking on it and clicking on “extract file” take note of the directory and the extracted file’s name.
Installation of Excel Solver Add-In:
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Run your Microsoft Office excel program, select tools, then add-ins. Click on the browse button and find solver.xla file in the zipped folder you extracted above, don’t worry about the solver.dll as it will be automatically loaded. You will notice that the “solver add-in” option is now available, then click “OK”, after that click on tools, you will now see the solver option.
If you have any questions or comments about this guide please add it in the comment section below, I would appreciate your feedback.
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