Knowing how to use Excel's variables gives you the ability to make your formulas – and by extension the spreadsheets containing those formulas – much easier to understand. For example ...

If you were wondering how to use Goal Seek in Excel for multiple cells at once, this is it. It takes one goal variable and adjusts a number of other variables until it gets the answer you want.

Single-variable equations are among the easiest to construct when using this tool. Use the Equation Editor to insert an equation into any cell in your Excel worksheet. Click the cell on the Excel ...

Creating a LAMBDA() function in Excel is fairly simple. Using LAMBDA(), you enter the parameters and calculation arguments using variables. Using Excel’s Define Names feature, you name the ...

This month, we’re exploring Goal Seek. This tool tells you how variables must change to achieve a specific goal. I’m using Excel 2013 and Windows 7. For your convenience, you can download the ...

Using Excel’s PivotTables and PivotCharts ... You can do this sort of simple analysis with any two variables, but you can also do more fine-grained summaries. Next, we will add another layer ...

Using What-If Analysis, you can visualize the effects of different variables, making it easier to assess risks and opportunities. In Excel, three primary tools are available for performing What-If ...

Here’s how to create slicers, format them, and use them to filter data in Excel. Spreadsheets’ greatest strength — the wealth of data they contain — also makes them nearly indecipherable ...

Daniel Jassy, CFA, is an Investopedia Academy instructor and the founder of SPYderCRusher Research. He contributes to Excel and Algorithmic Trading. Amy is an ACA and the CEO and founder of ...