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Barry,

Welcome to MATLAB. From the sounds of your post, your work
involves topics which MATLAB is greatly suited for. I almost
guarantee that in a year's time you'll have stopped using
excel for anything other than basic accounting.

Kudos for getting it (excel) to optimise on linear algebra
problems though!

Don't worry about being a newbie. I'm an experienced MATLAB
user - but am just getting into a different C++ application
too, so know what you're going through. It's SO hard to
learn a language at the same time as trying to solve a
specific problem.

As for optimisation, I'm not really up on linear algebra
either, but I do have a very well commented set of functions
to perform an optimisation. It should guide you quite well
through the use of functions like fminsearch. I imagine my
application was quite different to yours, but as a tool to
learn about program structure, it's pretty good.

I don't want to post it on the FEX as I've sold it in the
past, and it wouldn't feel ethical... However, if you email me:
t,clarkato2,co,uk (replace 'at' with '@' and commas with dots)
I'll supply you with a copy.

Cheers

Tom Clark