Q. You explained Excel’s Scenario Manager in your November 2024 Tech Q&A article and Goal Seek in your December 2024 Tech Q&A article. Can you please explain the final What-If Analysis tool: Data ...

Inserting a pivot table in a sheet in Excel 2013. Image: Screenshot by Susan Harkins/TechRepublic When is the last time you opened Microsoft Excel to do some data science? If it's been a while, you're ...

While many people know how to copy and paste data in Excel, few are aware of the program's ability to duplicate data as a dynamic picture that can be resized, reformatted, and moved to an appropriate ...

Stop guessing! Susan Harkins shows you how to use Excel's Goal Seek what-if analysis tool to achieve your goals. If you ask me, Excel’s what-if analysis tools are under-used. I often respond to ...

Microsoft Excel for analysts skills include Power Query to trim spaces and merge columns, so you automate cleaning steps and ...

Excel’s pivot tables are powerful tools for data analysis, but their true potential is unleashed when you combine data from multiple sheets. By harnessing the power of Excel’s advanced features, you ...

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 ...

Much of the data that you use Excel to analyze comes in a list form. You might need to sort the data, filter it, sum it, and perhaps even chart it. Excel tables provide superior tools for working with ...

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 ...