The Task Pane
Clicking the Model button displays or hides the Task Pane, normally docked at the right edge of
the Excel window. On the Task Pane Model tab, you’ll see an outlined list of all the elements of
your model: (i) objective, decision variables, and constraints for optimization models, (ii)
uncertain variables, uncertain functions, statistics, and correlations for simulation models, and
(iii) parameters for both kinds of models. As explained below, other tabs on the Task Pane
provide quick access to option settings, a log of events that happen during an optimization or
simulation, and for long-running optimization models, a continually updated status report plus a dynamic chart of the objective.