Wonderful, I’m glad this example is working for you now!

Thanks Scott! In fact, I ran it through today and it worked perfectly!! Strange, but it was late when I was trying to get it to work so perhaps I was tired. Brilliant exercise, much better to illustrate the point I was trying to make.

That’s strange. I admittedly did not save the original example when I was writing this tutorial, but when I recreated it I managed to come up with the same results. Here is a copy of the demo I just created: http://excelzoom.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/use-solver-excel-demo.xlsx.

I wonder if you might have had the = signs reversed?

I know it’s been a while since you requested the file for this problem, but you can find a link to download in the comment above.

If I can reciprocate with any examples for you any time please ask!

Thanks for your consideration

I’ll keep that in consideration for next time. These tips are usually fairly generic, so a file won’t be much help in a more realistic scenario. It could help grasp the concept, so we’ll try to add a example file in the future.
Thanks!