Inclusion of Free Solver in Excel 2013

I may be missing something, and I don't currently have Excel 2013 installed so I cannot check but this link implies you just have to install the Add-in.

https://support.office.com/en-us/art...ad=US&fromAR=1

Sounds as though you might be getting ripped off.

You're welcome.

I thought you were being asked to pay for something that is built into Excel and just needs activating. If they are offering a more powerful and sophisticated tool, then it is up to you, and your pocket, to decide whether or not you want to invest in it. Clearly, you do not



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Did you set a reference to Solver, and remove any reference to the other version?

Alf & SHG, thanks for following up on my continuing thread.

I suppose I am still hosting the advanced Solver, and I'll contact the Frontline folks.

The Solver appearing in my Data tab is Solver.xlam.
The Add-Ins tab shows only Avery, no Solver, in the Menu Commands area. The Developer tab Add-Ins entry shows a list of
add-ins and Solver with a check by it. The others are unchecked. File/Options/Add-Ins shows Solver as active and
Analytic Solver as inactive. Yesterday I found another extensive list of programmatic items that
included redundant entries and items that seemed to modify Office. The list was in the VBA editor and found by Tools/References.
It had more than one Solver; Solver, but not Analytic Solver was checked. ???

The Frontline Support page says Excel 2013 requires use of Solver "in the cloud." I have a pathological distrust of the "cloud." Frontline says that to solve locally I must have desktop Excel. What is that? Does this mean my version is too advanced for me to use? Can I modify my 2013 version to obtain compatibility between Solver and Excel 2013 data stored on my computer (for instance by a compatibility alteration of Excel or Solver)?