I am trying to use Solver in 64-bit Excel 2010.
When I run Solver, it opens the solver window, states that it has results and then popups the following error message:
Run-time error '53'
File not found: Solver32.dll
So, it would seem that the Solver32.dll cannot be loaded. It is however, available in the Solver Directory – i.e. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\Library\SOLVER contains SOLVER.XLAM and SOLVER32.dll
What have I tried so far…?
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did a full Office 2010 Repair
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this Microsoft forum suggested copying the Solver32.dll to C:\Windows\SysWOW64 (which is where Windows 7 stores it's 32-bit dlls).
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this forum suggested installing the Solver add-in (.xlam and .dll) to ..\AppData..\Microsoft\AddIns
I have tried both of these and neither of them worked…
Best Answer
I just ran into this problem as well, though I'm using Excel 2013.
Here's what I did to solve the problem:
For some reason this worked for me. It's important to completely close Excel (as noted in step 3): when I did this without closing excel, it didn't work.
Hopefully this helps someone in the future, since I doubt the original user still has this problem.