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Microsoft Excel is a powerful spreadsheet application used for organizing, analyzing, and visualizing data. In this course, you will learn the essential skills you need to get started and become confident in using Excel.

In this video lesson, we will learn about Using Solver in Microsoft Excel

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00:00so now let's see how we can actually go ahead and utilize something called solver in excel so to do
00:12that i'm going to go ahead and say item one let's say for example right here let me just go ahead
00:17and click and drag these out right here so that's item two uh two and three as well so let's say
00:23item one is around uh 350 item two is around 800 and item three is around let's say for example 1500
00:33but here just like this but let's say uh i want a total amount right here to be 4 000 right here so
00:41i want the sum to be 4 000 but if i were to go ahead and type in sum and then add up all of these
00:48then you don't get 4 000 right here let me just go ahead and add in an outer uh thickness right here
00:55add in boulder right here just like this make it bold as well so this is going to be the total
01:00so if i want to change the values right here uh in a certain way so that the total becomes 4 000
01:07then i can go ahead and utilize something called the solver so to do that you can go around over
01:13here onto file and then you can go to option right here and then what you need to do is you need to
01:19go around over here onto add-ins right here on the bottom go to the add-ins then go around over here
01:26onto the add-in go and press go and then you get the solver add-in you need to make sure that this is
01:31turned on and you need to press ok so once you go ahead and do that you need to go to the data tab
01:37and then you see the solver right here simply click on it and now you can see it says set objective
01:44right here just like this so i'm going to go ahead right here and now i want the objective
01:49uh b4 so let's just go around over here take the objective right here which is b4 so you can see that
01:56i'm going to set the objective to the value of exactly let's say for example 4 000 right here and
02:03now i want to change the values of this of these three cells right here to go ahead and change the
02:08value for 4 000 right here so if i were to go around over here and select all these three right here
02:13press enter then this is what you have so if i were to go ahead and now click on solve right here
02:19it actually calculates it out and increases out the value or decreases it out accordingly right here
02:25and then make sure that you get a 4 000 uh right here so press ok and you can see that this is what
02:33you have you can you can see that it rounded it up right here to 4 000 so this is 404 1086 right here
02:41and then 25 uh let's say for example right here's uh 2508 and you can see that this is what you have
02:49so you can simply go ahead and make a few changes right here so you can see that the solver is not
02:54actually perfect but this is what you can do so you can go ahead and add and make it 8 right here
03:00and this is what you have so that you can figure out the exact values that you can keep
03:04by maintaining the ratio of the of the items that you already have right there so that is how you can
03:11go ahead and solve problems like these using the solver inside of microsoft excel so i hope you found
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