What-if analysis in Excel is a powerful tool that allows you to explore different scenarios and outcomes by changing input values in your formulas. This guide will walk you through the three primary ...

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

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. Produced by Sara ...

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 ...

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.

Microsoft Excel 2010 comes with an expansion pack called the Analysis ToolPak that includes a number of analylitical tools, like the ability to create a liner regression table. Even though the ToolPak ...

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 ...

Have you ever felt like your Excel skills hit a ceiling, no matter how many pivot tables you create? You’re not alone. While standard pivot tables are a reliable tool for summarizing data, they often ...

I can easily achieve the same result with a pivot table by dragging the Salesperson field into Rows and the Sales field into ...