1. Other Useful Features of Excel n Scenario Manager n Freezing Panes n OLE

2. Scenario Manager n Suppose you want to see what happens as certain values are varied. n For example, as a borrower, you might be interested in how your loan payments and balances vary as the interest rate varies. n Or you might have a business and want to know what might happen if you decide to spend different amounts advertising a particular product line.

3. n You could always set the values a certain way, then perhaps print the resulting worksheet, then try different values, etc. n Or, you could create multiple copies of the same worksheet, each using different values of the quantity you want to vary. n Or, you could use the Scenario Manager.

4. n To use the Scenario Manager, go to Tools => Scenarios… n Initially, there will be no scenarios until you add them, so you should click Add in the Scenario Manager dialog box. n After you do this, you will see:

6. n In this particular instance, no cells on the worksheet were selected, so we next use the mouse to select cells B4:C4 on the worksheet. n Making any kind of change like this to the data in the dialog box causes it to be renamed the Edit Scenario dialog box.

8. n The example shown here is based on the grade book example used in the introductory presentation, where B4 and C4 contain the weightings used for Test 1 and Test 2. n (The weighting for the Final is computed using the formula =100%-B4-C4, and is therefore updated automatically when B4 or C4 change.)

9. n The idea is to have one scenario in which Test 1 and Test 2 have weightings of 25% each, and another where they have weightings of 30% each, to see what effect these changes have on everyone’s grade. n To create the 25% weighting scenario, we click OK on the Edit Scenario dialog box and then fill out the Scenario Values dialog box:

11. n After we’ve finished doing this, we then create the 30% weighting scenario similarly. n After this, when we do Tools => Scenarios… we see the following dialog box. n We can then select the name of the scenario we want to use and click Show, and the entire worksheet will show the results of applying that particular scenario.

13. Freezing Panes n If a worksheet is too large to fit entirely on the screen, you have to scroll to get to parts of it. n But this makes other parts disappear from view, including row and column headings. n For example:

15. n If we scroll to the right to enter or look at scores for HW 3 and the Final, we get this, where the students’ names are no longer visible:

17. n We would like rows 1 through 3 and column A to be displayed, no matter what part of the worksheet we scroll to. n To make this happen: 1. Make cell B4 the active cell 2. Do Window => Freeze Panes n All columns to the left of and all rows above the active cell are ‘frozen’ by this command.

19. OLE n It is handy to be able to include a worksheet or chart in a Word document. n It may be included by either embedding it (by pasting or inserting it), or linking it. n If you embed it, a copy is made and placed in the Word document.

20. n If you link it, no copy is made, but when you look at the Word document or print it, it looks like it’s there. n Linking saves space, and also allows any changes made in the linked file (e.g. Excel chart) to immediately be reflected in the document.