[excel] Goal Seek Macro with Goal as a Formula

GoalSeek will throw an "Invalid Reference" error if the GoalSeek cell contains a value rather than a formula or if the ChangingCell contains a formula instead of a value or nothing.

The GoalSeek cell must contain a formula that refers directly or indirectly to the ChangingCell; if the formula doesn't refer to the ChangingCell in some way, GoalSeek either may not converge to an answer or may produce a nonsensical answer.

I tested your code with a different GoalSeek formula than yours (I wasn't quite clear whether some of the terms referred to cells or values).

For the test, I set:

  the GoalSeek cell  H18 = (G18^3)+(3*G18^2)+6
  the Goal cell      H32 =  11
  the ChangingCell   G18 =  0 

The code was:

Sub GSeek()
    With Worksheets("Sheet1")
        .Range("H18").GoalSeek _
        Goal:=.Range("H32").Value, _
        ChangingCell:=.Range("G18")
    End With
End Sub

And the code produced the (correct) answer of 1.1038, the value of G18 at which the formula in H18 produces the value of 11, the goal I was seeking.