Andrew,

I don't know if it is possible, but it certainly wouldn't be legal. In any
case, it wouldn't be that hard to write a VB subroutine that would do a
search for a specific value by varying other parameters. I'm sure that a
google search or a question posted in the VB newsgroups would turn up
something in short order.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP

"Andrew Gaskell" wrote in message
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Hi All
Does anyone know if it is possible to use the functionality that
resides within the Excel Solver add-in, from within a VB6 application
- outside Excel? I know that you can call from VB6 a macro inside an
Excel workbook which will then use solver, but is it possible
*without* Excel and without having to purchase the Solver dll?

Thanks
Andrew