When you use the statistical analysis features in Excel, you are leveraging one of the most powerful tools available for data manipulation and interpretation. Excel is not just a spreadsheet ...

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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 ...

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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?

Excel's Focus Cell feature is one of the program's simplest yet most useful additions in recent years. It highlights the row and column of the active cell, helping you keep track of your position in ...

Microsoft on Thursday announced some Excel and Power BI enhancements that add "connected data types" on top of the standard strings and numbers options. Connected data types give access to a lot of ...

This is an overview of what cost analysis is all about, the types of cost analyses we implement at the IRC and what kinds of questions they can answer. Watch the full Cost analysis in Excel playlist.

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is overhauling Excel with the ability to support custom live data types.

Over the course of the last few years, Microsoft started adding the concept of “data types” to Excel; that is, the ability to pull in geography and real-time stock data from the cloud, for example.