From the course: Learning Minitab (version Minitab 17)

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Screen tour - Minitab Tutorial

From the course: Learning Minitab (version Minitab 17)

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- [Voiceover] In this movie, I would like to provide you with a quick tour of Minitab's user interface. The first thing you see when you open Minitab is a screen showing two windows open, one above the other. At the top window, with a white space showing, is the session window. This is where the session commands and results of your analysis will be displayed. In the bottom window you see what looks like a spreadsheet, this is the Minitab worksheet. While this may look and feel like a spreadsheet, such as Excel, it is not. Minitab is column-based. Unlike a spreadsheet, where you an apply formulas to any cell, Mintab commands apply only to columns of data. Across the top of the screen are the main menu items. I would like to provide highlights of each, from left to right. Starting on the left, is the File menu. If you left-click your mouse on File, you see functions such as New, Open, Save, and Save As. And Save As Projects, as well as Save As Worksheets. So, what's a worksheet, and…

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