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Old October 21st, 2004, 08:01 AM
Mark
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Can you give me an example of how to input value to get a specific result for
the goal seek function;i.e, what values do we input in the boxes to get the
result we want?
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Old October 21st, 2004, 08:23 AM
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Say you have the following:

A1: 100
A2: 11
A3: =SQRT(A1) + A2

and you want the value in A1 to result in A3 = 20. Select A3 and choose
Tools/Goal Seek. Enter A3 in the "Set cell:" box, 20 in the "To value:"
box and A1 in the "By changing cell:" box. Click OK.

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"Mark" wrote:

Can you give me an example of how to input value to get a specific result for
the goal seek function;i.e, what values do we input in the boxes to get the
result we want?

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Old October 21st, 2004, 02:09 PM
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trivial example


H11 cost 98
H12 sale 127.4
H13 profit fraction 0.3 this is formula =(H12-H11)/H11
in the goal seek window
set cell---$H$13
to value .2
by hnging cell ---$H$12
click ok twice
you get the sale value for a profit of .2 i.e. 20%

you need not type the cell addres but highlught the cell it is enough
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Can you give me an example of how to input value to get a specific
result for
the goal seek function;i.e, what values do we input in the boxes to get
the
result we want?




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