XL97: Solver Returns Incorrect Result

ID: Q221108

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you use the Solver add-in in Microsoft Excel 97 to calculate solutions to what-if scenarios based on adjustable cells and constraint cells, the result of the calculation is incorrect and is not the same as the result obtained in Microsoft Excel 5.

Microsoft has created an update to the Solver add-in which corrects this problem. To download this file from the Microsoft Download Center, see the "Resolution" section of this article.

RESOLUTION

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center. Click the file name below to download the file:

Solver.exe

For more information about how to download files from the Microsoft Download Center, please visit the Download Center at the following Web address

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.asp

and then click How to use the Microsoft Download Center.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

When you open Solver.exe, the following file is expanded:


   Solver.xla    created 3/10/1999

Additional query words: XL97 solver error incorrect

Keywords : kbfile kbdta xladdins
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug