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?

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.

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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 ...

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

To do that, select the Data tab, highlight the table, and click From Table/Range in the Get & Transform Data command group of ...

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 ...

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