About Using Supporting Detail

If you want to build logic into how a cell value is calculated, you can use the built-in calculator, called Supporting Detail, to develop that value and save your assumptions behind the value.

For example, say you want to plan for—using your own logic—the travel expenses for an upcoming quarter. This example shows how you could use Supporting Detail to plan travel expenses:

You can include text, numbers, and operators that define how data is calculated. See Adding Supporting Detail.