11/30/2022 0 Comments How to use goal seek in excel for macI will give you the link to install the official (yes, it’s from Google) Goal Seek add-on in Google Sheets. Before that let me introduce, for those who are unfamiliar with it, the purpose of Goal Seek in Google Sheets. Use Goal Seek to tune/get the result you need from a formula by finding the missing value or modifying the existing value. In certain cases, we know the result that we want from a formula like the total invoice value (in case you set a target to invoice) but don’t know how to get that required value by changing the quantity or rate.įor example, let’s consider the below-unformatted invoice. In this invoice, I want to reduce the Gross Amount to the tune of $430,000.00 (in cell D5) by changing the quantity (in cell B2) of the item ‘Dolomite in Bulk, Size 40-80 mm’. You can easily do that using the Goal Seek in Google Sheets. How to Get Excel Similar Goal Seek in Google Sheets It’s similar to the Goal Seek under the What-If Analysis in Excel but maybe a little slow if you go for performance comparison. I have already made it clear that to get the Goal Seek, you need to install an official Google add-on for Sheets. You can install the Goal Seek plugin two ways in Google Sheets. Within your Sheet, go to the menu ‘Add-ons’ and click ‘Get add-ons’.In the opening window, you can search the term ‘Goal Seek’ in the search field to find the add-on. Here is the step by step instructions to install the Goal Seek add-on in Sheets. I am installing the plugin from withing Google Sheets (option 1 above). Go to the menu ‘Add-ons’ in Google Sheets.On the window (G Suite Marketplace) that opens, search ‘Goal Seek’.
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