An optimization problem is one where you have to make the best decision (choose the best investments, minimize your company’s costs, find the class schedule with the fewest morning classes, or so on).

It can be frustrating when your formulas are not updating automatically on Excel. Building on that, here are the possible reasons why it may happen. In this post, we explain four such scenarios: The ...

A: Usually, when a program shuts down unexpectedly, it means the application itself either has a conflict within itself, a conflict with Windows (in that Windows is closing it to ensure stability) or ...

I'm having an issue with a project I'm currently working on. The project uses a series of data tables, and a linked excel spreadsheet as a structural data file (contains the details of a frequently ...

Q. Help! My future value calculations don’t make any sense (see the spreadsheet below). The formula in column D is the same for all rows, but for unknown reasons, it stops working after row 7. What’s ...

Q. I have an Excel spreadsheet where I need to enter the ticker symbol ACN for Accenture. Excel keeps changing ACN to CAN. What can I do? A. Most of us are familiar with how helpful autocorrect can be ...

To activate Power Pivot, go to File > Options, click Add-ins, select COM Add-ins from the dropdown, and check the box for ...