Managing personal finances effectively requires a combination of precision, foresight, and smart planning. Microsoft Excel offers a robust suite of tools, particularly under its “What-If Analysis” ...

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?

An curved arrow pointing right. Don't waste time testing different values individually in Excel. Use a data table to show the results for many different possible scenarios at once. Produced by Sara ...

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 ...

Q. I often save multiple versions of the same Excel file (usually with differing assumptions) and later have difficulty telling which file is which when I want to revert to a previous version. Any ...