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Q. In your November Tech Q&A article on Excel’s Scenario Manager, you mentioned two other “what-if” tools: Goal Seek and Data Table. Can you show how those work like you did with Scenario Manager?

An curved arrow pointing right. Don't waste time testing different values individually in Excel. Use a data table to show the results for many different possible scenarios at once. Follow BI Video: On ...

It’s not for big data, but you can use Microsoft Excel to learn a lot more about analytics than you may realize. For many office workers, Microsoft Excel is simply the go-to spreadsheet application.

So, select any cell in your formatted Excel table, and in the Insert Tab on the ribbon, click the top half of the split ...

Microsoft Excel is arguably the greatest spreadsheet application from Redmond, and there’s a good reason so many number crunchers use it for all of their number crunching needs. While using Microsoft ...

To activate Power Pivot, go to File > Options, click Add-ins, select COM Add-ins from the dropdown, and check the box for ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at multiple Excel tables, wondering how to make sense of the scattered data? Whether you’re managing sales reports, tracking inventory, or analyzing performance ...

Last month, we used Goal Seek to determine the most reasonable mortgage payment within a specific budget. This month, we continue with the mortgage example using Scenario Manager. We’ll generate a ...

Sean Ross is a strategic adviser at 1031x.com, Investopedia contributor, and the founder and manager of Free Lances Ltd. Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, ...