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 ...

Stop guessing! Susan Harkins shows you how to use Excel's Goal Seek what-if analysis tool to achieve your goals. If you ask me, Excel’s what-if analysis tools are under-used. I often respond to ...

Excel's Goal Seek feature helps with reverse calculations in financial planning, like CVP analysis. Goal Seek can assist in ...

If you ask me, Excel's what-if analysis tools are under-used. I often respond to readers with "Have you tried a data table?" Invariably, they don't know how to implement the feature--sometimes, they ...

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?

Excel journeymen know you can plug in numbers and get formula results from a spreadsheet. Lesser known, however, is the ability to figure out what numbers are need to get a certain result, which works ...

While you can use Microsoft Excel to build any sort of model that you want, it's important to remember that the program comes bundled with a ton of awesome features that will do the work for you. One ...