Stop guessing! Susan Harkins shows you how to use Excel's Goal Seek what-if analysis tool to achieve your goals.

During a What-If Analysis, the worksheet is altered to see how the changes will affect the formulas. Scenarios, Goal Seek, and Data Tables are three types of What-If Analysis tools in Excel. With ...

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. Follow BI Video ...

Quick comparison As I mentioned, Excel offers three what-if analysis tools. Goal Seek takes a result and projects an outcome to determine the possible input values that reduce that outcome.

Using Excel is a great way to perform what-if analysis, and formulas generating random values that make sense for your forecasting help present a variety of outcomes for analysis.