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?

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Q. How does the Scenario Manager in Excel work? A. Microsoft Excel’s Scenario Manager is a powerful tool for making informed financial decisions. It allows users to create and manage multiple data ...

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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, ...