Sorry, but Solver for Excel 2011 for Mac does not have a direct download. Use the link below and download the required product from the developer's site. FDMLib bears no responsibility for the safety of the software downloaded from third-party sites. Solver Tutorial: Excel 2011 (Mac) Summary: This tutorial will show how you can activate Solver and the Analysis ToolPa k in Excel 2011 for Mac. Note, Solver was added back into Excel 2011 with. The Analysis Tool Pack is not included in the Mac version and needs a separate program as a work-around. Step 1: Open Excel 2011.

Welcome to OpenSolver, the Open Source linear, integer and non-linear optimizer for Microsoft Excel.

• Download Solver Add In; Excel 2011 Mac Solver Add In Download Torrent; 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.
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The latest stable version,OpenSolver 2.9.3(1 Mar 2020) is available for download; this adds support for using Gurobi 9.0 as a solver. OpenSolver 2.9.4 Beta Release version is now also available for download. Refer to the release blog for the new 2.7, 2.8, 2.8.3,2.8.4, 2.8.5, 2.8.6, 2.9.0 , 2.9.3 & 2.9.4 improvements. View all releases.

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COIN-OR Cup Winner: We are pleased to announce that OpenSolver is the winner of the 2011 INFORMS COIN-OR Cupsponsored by IBM. Thanks, COIN-OR, for this honour.

OpenSolver is an Excel VBA add-in that extends Excel’s built-in Solver with more powerful solvers. It is developed and maintained by Andrew Mason and students at the Engineering Science department, University of Auckland, NZ. Recent developments are courtesy of Jack Dunn at MIT.

OpenSolver provides the following features:

• OpenSolver offers a range of solvers for use in Excel, including the excellent, Open Source, COIN-ORCBC optimization engine which can quickly solve large Linear and Integer problems.
• Compatible with your existing Solver models, so there is no need to change your spreadsheets
• No artificial limits on the size of problem you can solve – have as many variables and constraints as your computer memory allows (but be aware that large problems can be slow to solve)
• OpenSolver is free, open source software.

As well as providing replacement optimization engines, OpenSolver offers:

• A built-in model visualizer that highlights your model’s decision variables, objective and constraints directly on your spreadsheet
• A fast QuickSolve mode that makes it much faster to re-solve your model after making changes
• An algorithm to build and update the model only using information present on the sheet
• A modelling tool that we think improves on the built-in Solver window

OpenSolver has been developed for Excel 2007/2010/2013/2016 (including the 64bit versions) running on Windows, and supports Excel for Mac 2011 on Mac OS X, with limited support for Excel for Mac 2016. We currently test against Excel 2010/2013/2016 on Windows 7 and Windows 10, and Excel 2011/2016 on OS X 10.7 through 10.11. Note that we do not check our code against other versions of Excel or Windows/Mac than these. This means we cannot guarantee that the latest release will work on old versions. However, please give it a go and let us know of any problems so we can fix them.

You can download OpenSolver.zip (which is hosted on our Open Solver Source Forge site). Version details (and dates of updates) are shown on the blog page.

SolverStudio is a free alternative to OpenSolver that is better suited to larger problems. Available as a free download, SolverStudio lets you use Excel to edit, save and solve optimisation models built using modelling languages such as the Python-based PuLP, AMPL, GAMS, GMPL, COOPR/Pyomo and Gurobi’s Python interface. The latest release allows GAMS and AMPL modesl to be solved in the cloud using the excellent free NEOS servers. The SolverStudio interface is fully Excel-based, with the model being edited and run from Excel and stored inside the Excel file. This approach provides a much better modelling solution for complex optimisation problems. Check out the screen shots to see how it works. SolverStudio is much better and faster for large problems. However, OpenSolver is still a great tool for simpler models, or spreadsheets that must be compatible with the built-in Solver.

OpenSolver is being developed by Andrew Mason in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Auckland, and Iain Dunning. Kat Gilbert also made valuable contributions to the code while working as a summer student. Current development is lead by Jack Dunn from MIT. Development of OpenSolver is made easier by the excellent Excel Name Manager which displays all the hidden worksheet names used to store an optimization model.

OpenSolver is released as open source code under the GPL. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. OpenSolver uses a range of solvers, information on these is available here.

Citing OpenSolver: Continued development of OpenSolver is only possible if we can demonstrate its impact. If you are publishing work that uses OpenSolver, please cite both this opensolver.org website and this paper:

Mason, A.J., “OpenSolver – An Open Source Add-in to Solve Linear and Integer Progammes in Excel”, Operations Research Proceedings 2011, eds. Klatte, Diethard, Lüthi, Hans-Jakob, Schmedders, Karl, Springer Berlin Heidelberg
pp 401-406, 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29210-1_64, http://opensolver.org

Latex Reference

@INCOLLECTION{OpenSolver,
author = {Mason, AndrewJ},
title = {OpenSolver – An Open Source Add-in to Solve Linear and Integer Progammes
in Excel},
booktitle = {Operations Research Proceedings 2011},
publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
year = {2012},
editor = {Klatte, Diethard and Lathi, Hans-Jakob and Schmedders, Karl},
series = {Operations Research Proceedings},
pages = {401-406},
note = {http://opensolver.org},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-29210-1_64},
isbn = {978-3-642-29209-5},
language = {English},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29210-1_64}
}

Footnote

The Excel Solver is a product developed by Frontline Systems for Microsoft. OpenSolver has no affiliation with, nor is recommend by, Microsoft or Frontline Systems. All trademark terms are the property of their respective owners.

After you load Solver, the Solver command is available in the “Analysis group” on the “Data” tab – MAC users. 1. Open Excel for Mac 2011 and begin by clicking on the “Tools” menu. 2. Click “Add-Ins”, and then in the Add-Ins box, check “Solver.xlam” and then click “OK”. 3.

1. Download Excel Solver For Mac. Not all add-ins are compatible with Microsoft Excel 2019 on the Mac. This can be done through the installation of a virtual machine.
2. You should add solver to references. To do so, open visual basic editor. There is 'Add References.' Button on bottom left of the editor. Click it, check the box for Solver, then click OK. This should work.
3. Solver for Excel 2011 for Mac downloads and installs directly onto the Excel program without any problems or user input required. After opening Excel, the user must go to the add-in area.
4. O For Solver that ships with Excel 2019 or Office 365: There is no “new” SolverTable add-in for either of these. As far as I’m aware, SolverTable for Excel 2016 should work fine with either of these. I’m currently using it with Office 365 and haven’t run into any problems. O For Solver that ships with Excel 2016: SolverTable 2016.zip.

In How to Get More out of Excel Solver I covered techniques to enhance your model and empower your analysis. One of the topics I received the most questions on is the automating the solver to solve for multiple values.

There was a brief explanation in the previous article, but nothing dedicated to how to implement it from start to finish. In this article we’ll go in depth from start to finish covering the concepts and methods step by step. By the end you’ll be able to automate any of your own personal models and scale your analysis.

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How we’ll do it

We’ll leverage the macro recorder in Excel to handle most of the actual code. The record macro tool will allow Excel to convert our manual steps into VBA code.

We will then identify the key pieces of code to change. Then we will create a loop to dynamically select and replace these values and run the solver again.

This will be semi-technical but through this style of development we can focus on the process and the concepts instead of focusing on how to write code.

Setting up the macro recorder

The macro record functionality is found in the developer tab in the ribbon. This is not available by default but is easy to implement. If you navigate to your ribbon options you will see a checkbox for the developer tab.

The screenshot below is for Mac but PC based Excel is similar.

If you have not installed the solver add-on you can install it via the Add-ins menu. The Microsoft support site has instructions for all platforms, Load the Solver Add-in in Excel.

Recording the macro

Now that the set up is complete we we are ready to record! Set up your workspace appropriately with all your formulas and references. You’ll want to set up everything to the point before you build the solver model.

Make your way back to the developer tab on the ribbon. You will see a piece of paper with a red dot. Click on that button to open the recorder.

Give your macro a name and fill in the description if you’d like.

Once you hit Ok the recorder will begin.

Go through the steps of setting up your solver and solve it. Once this is complete go back to the developer tab and stop recording. It’ll be the same location as the button you used to start the recording.

Now that we have the base code we can clean it up and prep it for the next steps.

Clean up the code

Now we can edit the code, remove any unnecessary parts, and make sure we are only using the essential pieces of the macro recording.

You can edit the code through Excel’s VBA editor. To access your recorded code click the Macros button.

Navigate to your macro in the new menu and click edit.

Now that we have our code editor open we can start making tweaks.

Removing Unnecessary Code

If you happened to click through a bunch of other things while recording you can clear those out now and be left with something similar to below. If there is a lot of extra code and you are worried about breaking it, you can always rerecord.

Setting up the solver references

One last step before we move on, go to Tools > References and select Solver. If you don’t do this the package will not load in the macro and you’ll get an error.

You can now change your parameters open the macros menu, select your macro, hit run and it will update the results.

Let’s line up the code against our solver model. You’ll see how it lines up. The language is different but you can piece together what it all means.

Next we’ll isolate the parts we need to change and wrap up our automation.

Rinse and repeat – building the loop

Now that we have a working solver. We need to repeat that multiple times. Let’s put an example together and cement the plan.

We started with a budget of $1,000 in the first model but we want to do the same thing for $100 increments up to $2,500.

Let’s dive in! We have a list of values in column B and our output in column C. If we wrote out the process it would look like,

1. Set total spend to the value in B10.
2. Solve the model.
3. Place the output in C10.
4. Choose next B value.
5. Set the output in the C row.
6. Repeat steps 2-5 for all values in B.

Starting the loop

Loops are coding constructs that repeat an action until hitting a logical end point. A loop will come in handy here to repeat the same process, running the solver, on every value until we reach the end of the value.

Mac search for folder. For this example we’ll define the end point by the number of rows. B10:B25 has 16 values.

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We’ll start our loop and wrap it around our solver code. We’ll set up a variable to hold the loop number (i) and go through each value, solving the loop each time.

Resetting the solver

We’ll add another more condition at the start of our code. Since we want to rerun the solver each iteration, we’ll reset it each loop. This will clear the settings and start a fresh model.

We can do this via SolverReset.

Updating cell references

We now solve sixteen times but need to update our cell references. While we originally referenced B10 we need to move down one cell each run to update the limits. We can do this via the offset function. We can update “$B$10” to reference the cell then offset by i rows (0 on the first run, 1 row on the second, and so on). Each time the loop runs, i increases by one.

Collecting the output

The output will change each time so we’ll want to save it. We can follow the same process above but offset from C10 and set it equal to the value of the solved model. Then the loop starts over.

We’ll call C10 offset it by the appropriate number of rows then paste the value of our output.

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Sidestepping the solver notifications

Let’s save ourselves a headache and not learn by example for a moment. Remember when you ran the solver and that menu popped up asking if you’d like to accept the solution? That will pop up every time if you don’t disable it. Imagine if you set up a loop with 100’s of values, you’d have to click accept every time!

Go ahead and add the following lines after your solver code and add (TRUE) to SolverSolve. This will mimic you accepting the changes.

Now we have the finished code!

Up and running

We can now run the code by selecting it from the macro list and running. If you’d like to use your workbook as a template you can assign the macro to a button for ease of use. You can find these in the developer tab.

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You can also add any comparison graphs. In this case we want to compare the rate of spend growth versus the conversion volume growth. This example isn’t interesting but real data can help reveal efficiency breakpoints

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Conclusion

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We covered quite a bit! Congratulations on getting your automated solver up and running. The example we covered was overly simplistic, but you can take the same concepts and apply it to any solver model.

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This can save an enormous amount of time for models you need to solve multiple times and encourage users to experiment with different scenarios.

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