You would have to automate Excel. The user would have to have both Excel
and solver installed.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"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