Excel is incredibly powerful when your data is complete, but what happens when you need to solve for unknown variables? Enter Goal Seek and the Solver add-in, two tools that let Excel do the heavy ...

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?

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 ...

When you use Excel, you have access to powerful tools that can help you make informed decisions based on different scenarios. Two of the most useful tools for this purpose are Goal Seek and the ...