Goal Seek in What-If Analysis

December 10th, 2010 | Posted by iip in Spreadsheet tips - (0 Comments)

One of my favorite tips in Microsoft Excel 2007 is goal seek. The command can be found under What-If Analysis menu in data tools of  Data tab. Generally, what-if analysis provide us several different sets of values in one or more formulas to explore all the various results. Within what-if analysis, a series of process to change the values is running, enabling us to see how those change will affect the result of formulas.

There are several command in What-if analysis: goal seeks, scenarios and data table. Both scenarios and data tables need  sets of input values to determine possible results. If we only work with one or two variable then data table command is enough.  Meanwhile, a scenario  command has multiple variables and it addresses up to 32 values.

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Banyak layanan di Microsoft Excel yang jarang digunakan oleh pengguna  pada umumnya. Salah satunya adalah Goal Seek. Layanan ini dapat digunakan untuk mencari salah satu variable dalam perhitungan apabila sudah diketahui nilai akhir atau hasilnya.

Goal Seek dapat digunakan untuk:

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