Solver Now Available for Microsoft Excel 2008 for Mac
Frontline Systems developed the original Solver for Excel on both Macintosh and Windows. For many years, we've offered Solver upgrades for Windows users, that have gotten more and more powerful over time -- but we haven't been active on the Mac. We're now applying more development resources to the Macintosh, motivated by the Mac's resurgence in the market and the move to Intel processors. But the catalyst for this move has been Microsoft's Mac Excel team.
Solver is an Excel add-in that allows linear programming / analysis tool for Excel which was initially released for the Mac when Excel 2004 shipped but was dropped from Excel 2008 due to its dependency on Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) support.Microsoft has previously announced that VBA support will be coming back to Mac Office in the next version.
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I hope that Frontline, Crystal, Pallisade, or some other Excel plug-in risk evaluation developer to invest resources to support the Mac wholeheartedly (VBA has been the primary reason for no Mac support seemingly). My risk analysis courses need the advanced model analysis and Solver alone doesn't cut it.
Frontline at least seems confident in the Mac future now/finally.
Excel 2008 is completely worthless for a scientist and is a huge step back from 2004. What's the point of doing this to us? How much money did they save by taking away custom error bars, which have been in place since the beginning of Excel (as far as I can recall--and I used the very first version)?
If they finally add back custom error bars, then maybe I'll finally install this POS (even though I stupidly purchased it a year ago). The Analysis Toolpack wouldn't hurt either.
Excel 2008 is completely worthless for a scientist and is a huge step back from 2004. What's the point of doing this to us? How much money did they save by taking away custom error bars, which have been in place since the beginning of Excel (as far as I can recall--and I used the very first version)?
No kidding? I had no idea the error bars were taken out; hell, even NeoOffice has 'em.
Looks it's going to be a long wait for me....
No kidding? I had no idea the error bars were taken out; hell, even NeoOffice has 'em.
Looks it's going to be a long wait for me....
Excel 12 aka Excel 2008 is so much slower on my Intel Mac Pro that I like many others purchased it at the beginning of the year but have not used it past doing some checking & comparing with Excel 11 aka Excel 2004. My Income Tax Prep program is written in Excel. Part of it I started in 1986
time frame. So it has worked under many diferent versions of Excel. This past version has changed my la¥out size & thus it will only print about 80-85% of the line width, but the page height is correct. With the absence of macros & many other features it's not worth the effort to change the column width to make my Excel 11 program work in Excel 12.
Like others I will be downloading this new readmission of a lost feature when downgrading from Excel 11 to Excel 12 for the Mac.Like some others here I have used MS Ecel since it came out in 1985 for the Mac. They stayed at version 1 for a long time because they had no real competition. For many Excel Users the biggest competition for Excel 12 for the Mac is Excel 11 for the Mac. I've tried other spreadsheets through the past 24+ years & Excel has always won big time. We only have MS to blame for ruining their best program that they have ever written.
Here goes the download.
The whole suite behaves both in a non-Windows way and a non-Mac way thereby alienating both userbases. I shall call this third way the "retarded way".
Parallels + Windows Office, NeoOffice, iWork (for really simple stuff) or even Mac Office 2004 has to be a better option that this appalling excuse for piece of software.
Avoid!
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