Have you ever found yourself tangled in a web of complex Excel formulas, trying to make sense of sprawling datasets with traditional functions like SUMIFS? Many of us have been there, struggling with ...

I'm all for anything that makes Excel easier to use.

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?

As PCMag's resident data journalist, I practically live in Microsoft Excel. I've learned that it's capable of far more than I ...