Excel 2010 provides powerful data-analysis tools that enable you to explore large amounts of data and to make educated business decisions based on that data. Using Goal Seek and Solver enables you to retrieve required results from formulas by determining the data the formula requires. And you can use additional what-if analysis components, data tables and scenarios, to forecast worksheet outcome models and to see how changing values in formulas affect the formula results.
Learning objectives
Use Goal Seek for data analysis
Use Solver to perform data analysis
Create scenarios using the Scenario Manager
Manage Excel 2010 what-if scenarios
Create a data table for what-if analysis
Recognise how to project values in a series
Use what-if analysis to find out how to achieve a desired result
Use what-if analysis to determine the maximum or minimum value of one cell by changing other cells
Use what-if analysis to forecast best-case and worst-case results
Use what-if analysis to explore a possible set of outcomes at a glance
Audience
End users seeking proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel 2010 at an advanced level