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?

Microsoft Excel is arguably the greatest spreadsheet application from Redmond, and there’s a good reason so many number crunchers use it for all of their number crunching needs. While using Microsoft ...

I can easily achieve the same result with a pivot table by dragging the Salesperson field into Rows and the Sales field into ...

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 ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at multiple Excel tables, wondering how to make sense of the scattered data? Whether you’re managing sales reports, tracking inventory, or analyzing performance ...

To activate Power Pivot, go to File > Options, click Add-ins, select COM Add-ins from the dropdown, and check the box for Microsoft Power Pivot for Excel. Once enabled, a new Power Pivot tab appears ...

It is not required to chart a linear regression line, but it makes creating statistics tables simpler ... You can create a regression output using the Data Analysis ToolPak in just a few clicks. The ...

Sean Ross is a strategic adviser at 1031x.com, Investopedia contributor, and the founder and manager of Free Lances Ltd. Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, ...