To Access the Documentation That Comes with Minitab

Minitab at Home - Data, and Features

Below are steps to access the documentation (Data, and features) that came with your home copy of Minitab. (Note you may need the Minitab CD.) Specifically the documentation is Data, Help (including Tutorials), and the “Meet Minitab” guide. (See picture #1 below) 1. First see if you have the documentation already installed. a. Observe the Minitab area of the START program menu: START > All Programs > Minitab 14. (See Picture #3 below.) You should see Meet Minitab, Minitab Tutorials.. Meet Minitab is a pdf file (1.48 MB). b. Observe the Help menu, inside the Minitab program. Click on the Help menu. (See Picture #2.) You should see Help, StatGuide, and Tutorials among other items. c. Observe the Data folder. From inside Minitab, click on File > Open Worksheet…. You should see the Data folder. If not, find Data folder by specifying in the “Look in:” box: C drive. Then double-click on Program Files folder, then Minitab 14 folder, and then Data folder. (See Picture #4.) If you have Data folder then it is already installed. 2. If you don’t see these items, you will need to install (on add) these features. Follow these steps) a. Go to the Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs just to see first if you are missing any of these items. An unchecked item is a missing item. i. Click START > Control Panel ii. Click on Add/Remove Programs link iii. Click on Minitab 14, “Change/Remove” button. iv. When the Install Wizard opens, select first choice of the three listed:  Modify (Select new features to add…)  Repair  Remove v. The checked features are already installed. The unchecked items are not installed or are missing. Make note that any unchecked features from Data, all Help Files (to include Tutorials), and Meet Minitab (Picture #1 items). b. If you have all of the just mentioned items checked then do nothing; Cancel out of the wizard. If any of these are unchecked, cancel out of the Wizard, but then follow next step to install these features: c. Install missing (unchecked) features: i. Close all programs. ii. Insert the Minitab CD. (It should start up automatically. Otherwise you will need to double click a file on the CD most likely named setup to start it.) iii. When the Install Wizard opens, select first choice of the three listed:  Modify (Select new features to add…)  Repair  Remove iv. Check the boxes of the missing features to install (ones listed in Picture #1 below Meet Minitab, all Help files with Tutorials, Data, etc) v. Click Next. Click Finish. d. See teacher for help if necessary. 3. To access Meet Minitab at home, click START > All Programs > Minitab 14 > Meet Minitab. It opens as a pdf file in Acrobat Reader. To print, go to File > Print and in the dialog box, specify the pages to print. Select “pages from” and for example type 1 to 12.

1 Picture # 1 MINITAB Picture #2 MINITAB

Picture #3 MINITAB at home

Picture #4: MINITAB at home

2 4. Alternate method. Un-install the program and then re-install it using the “custom” choice install option. a. Be sure all other programs are closed. b. Remove the program i. Click START > Control Panel ii. Click on Add/Remove Programs iii. Click on Minitab 14, “Change/Remove” button iv. Select third choice of the three listed and listed here below:  Modify  Repair  Remove c. When the un-install procedure is finished. Reinstall the program: i. Insert the Minitab release 14 CD, and follow directions. (See class notes) ii. Follow the install wizard directions and select “Custom” install. (Be sure to install the various features listed in the Picture #1 above, (esp. Meet Minitab, Data, Tutorials)