There is a way to resolve this problem. But there's also a catch. It's going to take a little patience. We're working on getting RefEdit controls running for all VB forms in Office for Mac 2016 and hope to roll them out in an update in early 2016. Once this happens, you'll have the old 'select cells' behavior you're used to in Solver and any other forms that rely on it. Here is the same model using solver (frontline solver not excel solver). The screenshot you provided is from excel solver, and i am assuming you tried to solve the problem using frontline solver without inputs.
Under Add-ins, select Solver Add-in and click on the Go button. Check Solver Add-in and click OK. You can find the Solver on the Data tab, in the Analyze group. Formulate the Model The model we are going to solve looks as follows in Excel. To formulate this linear programming model, answer the following three questions. What are the decisions to be made?
For this problem, we need Excel to find out how much to order of each product (bicycles, mopeds and child seats). What are the constraints on these decisions? The constrains here are that the amount of capital and storage used by the products cannot exceed the limited amount of capital and storage (resources) available. For example, each bicycle uses 300 units of capital and 0.5 unit of storage. What is the overall measure of performance for these decisions? The overall measure of performance is the total profit of the three products, so the objective is to maximize this quantity.
To make the model easier to understand, the following ranges. Range Name Cells UnitProfit C4:E4 OrderSize C12:E12 ResourcesUsed G7:G8 ResourcesAvailable I7:I8 TotalProfit I12 3. Insert the following three SUMPRODUCT functions. Explanation: The amount of capital used equals the of the range C7:E7 and OrderSize. The amount of storage used equals the sumproduct of the range C8:E8 and OrderSize. Total Profit equals the sumproduct of UnitProfit and OrderSize. Trial and Error With this formulation, it becomes easy to analyze any trial solution.
For example, if we order 20 bicycles, 40 mopeds and 100 child seats, the total amount of resources used does not exceed the amount of resources available. This solution has a total profit of 19000. It is not necessary to use trial and error. We shall describe next how the Excel Solver can be used to quickly find the optimal solution.
Solve the Model To find the optimal solution, execute the following steps. On the Data tab, in the Analyze group, click Solver. Enter the solver parameters (read on). The result should be consistent with the picture below. You have the choice of typing the range names or clicking on the cells in the spreadsheet.
Enter TotalProfit for the Objective. Enter OrderSize for the Changing Variable Cells.
Click Add to enter the following constraint. Check 'Make Unconstrained Variables Non-Negative' and select 'Simplex LP'. Finally, click Solve.
Result: The optimal solution: Conclusion: it is optimal to order 94 bicycles and 54 mopeds. This solution gives the maximum profit of 25600. This solution uses all the resources available.
It appears you are using the built-in add-in of Solver, not the Javascript add-in for Solver. To turn the Solver add-in on or off, go to the Tools menu and choose Excel Add-ins, then check or uncheck the Solver add-in. Quing seems to think that turning the add-in off and then back on might help this issue, so please give it a try and reply with the results. I am an unpaid volunteer and do not work for Microsoft. 'Independent Advisors' work for contractors hired by Microsoft. 'Microsoft Agents' work for Microsoft Support.
Hi Maria, To help understand your situation, please confirm the following information: 1.Have you referred to Steve's reply above? 2.Confirm whether it happens to some specific files(e.g. Files in the OneDrive for Business, files in the Dropbox, files on your computer) or all the files. 3.Did the issue happen before?
What was your previous Office version? 4.Share the detailed steps about how you reproduced the issue. You may capture a video and share it with us via. Moreover, here is a thread about Solver for your reference which has been reported to the related team. Regards, Felix. Hi, I'm currently having several difficulties with Solver (MacOS 10.12.4,Excel 15,33), and at at least a couple seem related to what you are seeing my priorities are always finding a workaround in order to avoid getting stuck - so: Solver pop up windows (e.g.