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Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated February 12, 2022)
This tip applies to Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, Excel in Microsoft 365, and 2021
Once a scenario is saved, you can later edit it without the necessity of editing the worksheet and resaving the scenario. Instead, you use the Scenario Manager to do the editing. Follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Edit Scenario dialog box.
Figure 2. The Scenario Values dialog box.
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2022-02-16 12:47:50
Tomek
One possible, but may be not well known, use of scenarios is for spreadsheets that you need to have available in more that one language.
Simply select the cells with textual information and create a scenario in, say, English. Then add another scenario with the same information in the second language. You can do the editing via scenario manager, as Allen described, or first change the cells directly, then select them to create the second (and possibly more scenarios).
Another benefit is that you still can have separate independent scenarios for other numeric or non numeric data. And it definitely beats maintaining and updating multiple files for multiple languages.
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