Excel can solve for unknown variables, either for a single cell with Goal Seek or multiple cells with Solver.

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?

Sometimes persons would use scenarios to try out various values, especially if you know the result you want from the formula but are not sure what input the formula needs to get that result. For ...

This guide will walk you through the three primary what-if analysis tools in Excel: Scenarios, Goal Seek, and Data Tables, along with additional tools like the Solver add-in. Scenarios ...

In Excel, three primary tools are available for performing What-If Analysis: Scenarios, Goal Seek, and Data Table. To recap the last couple of months, here are brief definitions of Scenarios and Goal ...