Isaac teaches over 2,000 MBA students a year at Columbia, NYU and Temple U and over 3,000 undergrads on-line.
See how he uses the Solver to find out the ideal location for a manufacturing plant. He then takes the output and plots it on a scatter chart, adds some scroll bars and a sprinkling of magic dust and makes it do this (watch the red marker on the map):
Here is the video:
Now I know it’s not every day you need to calculate the ideal location of a manufacturing plant, but take a few minutes to think about how you could use one or more of the tips in this video and apply it to your work.
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If you’d like to learn how to incorporate interactive features like this in your Excel reports and charts check out my Excel Dashboard course.
Where’s the Solver?
The Solver is an add-in. If you don’t already have it on the Data tab of your ribbon you can add it by going to Excel Options (Office button or File tab) > Add-ins:
Then you should have this:
Where is the Scroll Bar?
On the Developer tab of the ribbbon.
If you don’t have the Developer tab available you can add it:
File Tab (2010/13), or Windows button (2007) > Options > Customize Ribbon; check the Developer box under Main Tabs in the right selection pane.Thanks
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