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?

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Q. I often save multiple versions of the same Excel file (usually with differing assumptions) and later have difficulty telling which file is which when I want to revert to a previous version. Any ...

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