PREMIUM SOLVER FOR EDUCATION V7.0 Copyright 2007 Frontline Systems Inc. P.O. Box 4288, Incline Village, NV 89450 Tel (775) 831-0300 Fax (775) 831-0314 Email info@solver.com Web www.solver.com The Premium Solver for Education V7.0 is a subset of Frontline's Premium Solver V7.0 that is bundled with certain textbooks and is licensed only for educational use. It has the same problem size limits (200 decision variables) and speed as the standard Excel Solver, but it provides many new features including the Evolutionary Solver and the new Linearity, Feasibility, Solutions, and Population Reports. The Premium Solver for Education V7.0 supports Excel 2007, Excel 2003, Excel XP and Excel 2000 on Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 2000. Worksheets up to 16 thousand columns and 1 million rows are supported only in Excel 2007. TO INSTALL To install the Premium Solver for Education V7.0, use Start Run to run the program PremSolv.exe. Simply read the explanation in each dialog, and click the OK button. The only choice to be made is the installation path, and we strongly recommend that you accept the default path and click OK. TO USE THE SOFTWARE After PremSolv.exe is run, start Excel. In Excel 2000 - 2003, look for a new choice "Premium Solver" on the Tools menu. In Excel 2007, look for a new choice "Premium Solver" on the Add-Ins tab. Select this choice to display the Solver Parameters dialog. TO ACCESS HELP AND EXAMPLES Click the Help button in the Solver Parameters dialog to display a dialog with buttons to open a workbook of Examples installed on your PC, open a Web browser to Solver.com where more examples can be downloaded, or display a Help file based on the full text of the Premium Solver Platform V7.0 User Guide. TO UNINSTALL You can uninstall the Premium Solver for Education V7.0 in two ways: 1. Run the program PremSolv.exe again, and select the Uninstall option from the initial menu. 2. Use Start [Settings] Control Panel, select Add/Remove Programs, select "Frontline Systems Premium Solver for Education V7.0", and click Remove. TECHNICAL SUPPORT You should look to your instructor for assistance and support of the Premium Solver for Education V7.0 for your class work. Frontline Systems receives no compensation for your use of the Premium Solver for Education V7.0. Instructors may contact us at info@solver.com or 775-831-0300 for technical support. Please bear in mind that our academic and commercial customers who have purchased the full Premium Solver V7.0 or Premium Solver Platform V7.0 receive priority for our technical support resources. If you are "in a jam" as a student, please email or call us, and we'll try to help you out on an as-available basis. All of us at Frontline Systems were students once, so we understand. We strongly encourage both instructors and students to READ ONLINE HELP and READ THE USER GUIDE before contacting us for technical support. You can save yourself and us a lot of time by doing this. The full User Guide is available at: C:\Program Files\Frontline Systems\Premium Solver for Education\Help\FrontlinePlatformV7.0.pdf USING BOTH THE PREMIUM SOLVER FOR EDUCATION V7.0 AND THE STANDARD EXCEL SOLVER It is possible to use both the Premium Solver for Education V7.0 and the standard Solver included with Excel in the same Excel session. Simply select Tools Solver for the standard Excel SOlver, and Tools Premium Solver for the Premium Solver for Education V7.0. If you use VBA macros (such as SolverSolve) to control the Solver, you must decide whether these should control the standard Solver or the Premium Solver for Education V7.0. If the box "Load V7 VBA Macros" in the Solver Model dialog is checked, the PSE V7.0 will be used. If it is unchecked, the standard Solver will be used. USING BOTH THE PREMIUM SOLVER FOR EDUCATION V7.0 AND THE PREMIUM SOLVER PLATFORM V7.0 (ADVANCED) The Premium Solver for Education V7.0 and Frontline's commercial Premium Solver Platform V7.0 both use the menu option Tools (or Add-Ins) Premium Solver. It is possible to use both the PSE V7.0 and the PSP V7.0 on the same PC, but not in the same Excel session. When you start Excel, the product most recently registered as a COM add-in will be used. To register the Premium Solver for Education V7.0 as a COM add-in, you can either re-run PremSolve.exe or use the following Start Run command: regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Frontline Systems\Premium Solver for Education\Bin\Solver32.xll" To register the full Premium Solver V7.0 or the Premium Solver Platform V7.0, you can either re-run PSPSetup.exe or use the following Start Run command: regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Frontline Systems\Premium Solver Platform\Bin\Solver32.xll" The quotes are required on the command line.