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title:  Generating the Forecasts
description: "We’ll begin this lesson by generating a forecast for the cakes and muffins data that we explored in *The Basics *lesson. Click on the “New Project” icon to go to the Forecast Pro main window. Make sure you are on the **Home** tab and…"
url: "https://www.forecastpro.com/documentation/forecast-pro-trac/customizing-the-override-grid/generating-the-forecasts-2/"
updated: "2024-12-16"
category: TRAC General Operations Tutorials / Customizing the Override Grid
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#  Generating the Forecasts

We’ll begin this lesson by generating a forecast for the cakes and muffins data that we explored in *The Basics *lesson.

Click on the “New Project” icon to go to the Forecast Pro main window.

Make sure you are on the **Home** tab and click the Data Manager icon.

![](https://www.forecastpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tut-worksheet-0.jpg)

Click the Add drop-down on the Historic Data row, select Excel and select *123 Bakery – Historic Data.xlsx* to add it to the Historic Data row.

Click the Add drop-down on the Conversions row, select Excel and select *123 Bakery – Conversions.xlsx* to add it to the Conversions row. Your Data Manager should now match the one above.

Click the Read & Forecast button to read in the historic demand data and generate the statistical forecasts. Since the Conversion row’s *on Read* option is active, notice that the conversions were read in as well.

Click the Exit button to exit the Data Manager.