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?

Using Goal Seek, you can avoid reverse calculations and let Excel find the inputs that result in your desired output. While there are dozens of financial planning tasks where you can use Goal Seek ...

Goal Seek for Long-Term Planning Microsoft Excel's little-known Goal Seek tool is there to help when you know the end goal, but don't know how to get there.

In Excel, three primary tools are available for performing What-If Analysis: Scenarios, Goal Seek, and Data Table. To recap the last couple of months, here are brief definitions of Scenarios and Goal ...