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Share this story. Along with Visual Basic for Applications, the scripting language used in many business-oriented spreadsheets, Excel also lost Solver when it was upgraded to be included in Office 2008. Since Solver relied on VBA, it had to get the axe. Still, Solver is used in many business, engineering, and scientific analyzation tasks, and accordingly, users asked Microsoft's Mac BU to bring it back. As a result, Solver for Excel 2008 is for immediate download. Developed by Frontline Systems, the original developers of Solver, is a standalone app and is a simple drag-and-drop install. It currently only works with the most recent version of Excel, 12.1.2, but it is a Universal Binary and runs on Leopard or Tiger.
It works by tying in to the currently open spreadsheet in Excel, so you have to run both applications concurrently; there doesn't seem to be a way to launch Solver directly from Excel. Though we have already heard that VBA will be version of Office, there currently is no definite timeline for when that will happen. In the meantime, users missing Solver will no doubt be thrilled to have it back.
Since it is Labor Day Weekend, though, just set yourself a reminder to Tuesday morning. Surely you weren't planning on spending the weekend working on complex spreadsheets, were you?
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