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In MS Excel there is a tool called Goalseek that lets Excel search for a solution you are looking for. If you already use it you may want to improve the Goalseek precision for cases where Excel gets close to but not exactly the correct number.

However, we highly recommend that you DON'T use merge cells in MS Excel and rather use the alternate in this post.

... the key planning areas is how many resources you may need given a specific workload, and more specifically how many 'full time equivalent' staff you may need. In order to do full time equivalent calculations in Excel there are some functions that would be useful to master.

From Excel 2016, there is a convenient Forecasting tool in Excel which allows you to show Excel some historical data (say 24 months worth of sales) and Excel will, taking growth and seasonality into account, forecast for up to 50 months into the future.

If you use PowerQuery you may notice that in the filter, some of the options you want to use seem to be missing. So why is ' Begins with, Ends With, Contains missing ' missing from some PowerQuery filters?

GETPIVOTDATA is a brilliant formula that allows you to effectively run a VLOOKUP within a Pivot Table. It is possible to make the GETPIVOTDATA use dynamic references but the one that doesn't work so well is the Data Field.

You've built your Pivot Table in MS Excel, but the column and row labels are not showing the name of the relevant field. How can you fill the empty labels with the headings in a Pivot Table?

Conditional formatting is a useful feature but there are times that you need to remove either all the conditional formatting or else the conditional formatting on specific cells. Two ways of how to remove conditional formatting in MS Excel.