The Secret Life of Minitab

Minitab offers many features that can save you time and effort when you’re learning statistics or analysing data. However, even long time users aren’t aware of the following short cuts, tools, and capabilities: Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. - Aaron Levenstein Manipulating Data Image via Wikipedia Need to change the format of a column? For example, do you need to convert a text column to numeric format for your analysis? Just choose Data > Change Data Type and select the appropriate option. Re-Order? Have you ever created a graph and wished you could switch the order of the results? For instance, you might want to change “High, Medium, Low” to “Low, Medium, High”. To display your results in a specific order, right-click on the column used to generate the output and choose Column > Value Order. This lets you set the value order for a text column using an ...