I started writing a series of blogs on the use of Excel spreadsheets for circuit design on the now-defunct Microcontroller Central. Those blogs, though separate from this blog and future ones that I ...

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?

You’ll find three of them — Goal Seek, Scenario Manager, and Data Tables — under the Data tab, within the Forecast group, ...

Explore Excel’s new AI-powered tools and productivity features in the Fall 2025 update. Smarter, faster, and more intuitive ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q. How does the Scenario Manager in Excel work? A. Microsoft Excel’s Scenario Manager is a powerful tool for making informed financial decisions. It allows users to create and manage multiple data ...

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 ...

Solver allows you to use an Excel spreadsheet to easily solve problems with multiple variables. We'll look at a couple of examples to see what Solver can do and how easy it is to use. Solver is an add ...

Leveraging AI to help analyze and visualize data gathered from a variety of data sets enables data-driven insights and fast analysis without the high costs of talent and technology. In today's ...