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Figure 13-4: Calculating a credit card payment schedule.<br />

Chapter 13: Financial Schedules 351<br />

Summarizing Loan Options Using a Data Table<br />

If you’re faced with making a decision about borrowing money, you have to choose between<br />

many variables, not the least of which is the interest rate. Fortunately, Excel’s Data Table command<br />

(Data➜Data Tools➜What-If Analysis➜Data Table) can help by summarizing the results of<br />

calculations using different inputs.<br />

The workbook loan data tables.xlsx contains the examples in this section and<br />

can be found on the companion CD-ROM.<br />

The data table feature is one of Excel’s most under-utilized tools. A data table is a dynamic range<br />

that summarizes formula cells for varying input cells. You can create a data table fairly easily, but<br />

data tables have some limitations. In particular, a data table can deal with only one or two input<br />

cells at a time. This limitation becomes clear as you view the examples.<br />

Creating a one-way data table<br />

A one-way data table shows the results of any number of calculations for different values of a<br />

single input cell. Figure 13-5 shows the general layout for a one-way data table.

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