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 ...

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?

Using Goal Seek, you can avoid reverse calculations and let Excel find the inputs that result in your desired output. While there are dozens of financial planning tasks where you can use Goal Seek ...

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 ...

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 ...

Excel Goal Seek function allows you to forecast data outcomes, especially associated with cost.

Stop guessing! Susan Harkins shows you how to use Excel's Goal Seek what-if analysis tool to achieve your goals.