Excel offers three what-if analysis tools that can sharpen your decision-making and help you find the best route to accomplish your objectives. This ebook introduces these tools—Goal Seek, Scenario ...

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?

Learn how to sum data in Excel using IF conditions with SUMIF or SUMIFS. Perfect for accurate reporting and data analysis.

When you use the statistical analysis features in Excel, you are leveraging one of the most powerful tools available for data manipulation and interpretation. Excel is not just a spreadsheet ...

You can create a PivotTable in Excel from an external data source, a table in your worksheet, or a pre-built data model. To ...

Have you ever felt overwhelmed staring at a massive Excel spreadsheet, unsure how to extract the exact data you need? Whether you’re managing sales figures, tracking inventory, or analyzing project ...

AQ-IQ Mentor Xavier McIntyre explains how to import pod data (from a .txt file) into Excel. How to Import Pod Data into Excel AQ-IQ Mentor Cindy Yang explains how to create a graph without baseline ...

Excel's IF function validates a cell's contents, determining whether it meets criteria that you set. It provides no information beyond what your workbook already contains, but it analyzes the data ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help leaders bridge the gap between data and business impact. To question “what if” is part of human nature — and the backbone ...

While Microsoft Excel is one of the most powerful spreadsheet applications, it’s also the most intimidating tool in the Microsoft Office suite. If you’ve never used Excel before or are just a bit ...