Q. You explained Excel’s Scenario Manager in your November 2024 Tech Q&A article and Goal Seek in your December 2024 Tech Q&A article. Can you please explain the final What-If Analysis tool: Data ...

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 ...

Microsoft Excel’s Data Analysis Toolpak is an invaluable add-in for those who require complex statistical or engineering analyses. This powerful feature allows users to execute a variety of data ...

Placing spreadsheet data into a table quickly formats it and makes it easy to work with and analyze. Here’s how to use this basic yet powerful Excel tool. Tables are one of the fundamental tools in ...

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?

Have you ever carefully crafted a formula in Excel, only to watch it unravel into chaos the moment you copy it across columns? It’s a maddening quirk of Excel tables—structured references that seem to ...

This is the second part of a two-part series dealing with the impact of data. In my last article, I discussed how not be manipulated by it, and in this one you’ll find advice on how to use it ...