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Table Of Contents Window Menu ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1

Window Menu................................................................................................................................................................... 1 Working with Windows Using the Keyboard..................................................................................................................... 1 Refresh ............................................................................................................................................................................. 1 Close All Graphs............................................................................................................................................................... 1 Cascade ........................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Tile.................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Minimize All ...................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Restore Icons ................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Arrange Icons ................................................................................................................................................................... 2

Index ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 3

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Window Menu Window Menu Cascade - arranges all open Minitab windows so that they overlap with each title bar visible (if possible) Tile - arranges all open Minitab windows so they fit next to each other on the desktop and do not overlap (if possible) Minimize All - reduces all open windows to icons and places them at the bottom of the screen Restore Icons - opens all icons into windows, sized as they were when last reduced to icons within the session Arrange Icons - arranges icons along the bottom of the Minitab window Refresh - redraws the graph in the active window Close All Graphs - closes all Graph windows Update All Graphs Now - updates all Graph windows Session [Ctrl]+[M] - switches you to the Session window, where you can enter session commands and/or view analysis results Project Manager - switches you to the Project Manager window, where you can manage windows, graphs, worksheets, related documents, and project information. Worksheets and Graphs - all open Graph and Data windows are listed at the bottom of the Window menu. Click on any window name to activate the window and bring it to the front of Minitab. See Multiple Graph Windows Limit for important information on graphs.

Working with Windows Using the Keyboard To switch between Minitab windows, press [Ctrl]+[F6] to switch to the next window, or Session window [Ctrl]+[M] Data window [Ctrl]+[D] (pressing multiple times cycles through all open Data windows) Project Manager [Ctrl]+[I] For a list of available default shortcut keys, see Shortcut Keys. For a map of all currently assigned shortcut keys, including custom user-assigned keys, see Help > Keyboard Map. To assign custom shortcut key, or to delete a Minitab default shortcut key assignment, see Tools > Customize > Keyboard.

Refresh Refresh Window > Refresh Refreshes (redraws) the active window. This can be useful in some (rare) instances where a window has not been updated for some time and you want to make sure the window shows the current contents.

Close All Graphs Close All Graphs Window > Close All Graphs Allows you to delete all high-resolution Graph windows. Minitab can retain at most 200 Graph windows at a time. Ordinarily, Minitab discards older Graph windows as necessary to avoid exceeding this limit. Use Tools > Options > Graphics > Graph Management to set how many graphs Minitab can have open at once (maximum 200, default is 100) and to set Minitab to prompt you to save unsaved graphs or graphs you have edited. The number of graphs that can be open before you are prompted with the message depends on the limit set in the graphics options. If the number of Graph windows produced by a single command or a single Minitab macro file exceeds the options setting, then Minitab pauses to allow you to view, save, print, and discard Graph windows before continuing. You can use this command when Minitab pauses in this manner. Close a single graph window as you would any other window on your operating system.

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Cascade Cascade Window > Cascade Arranges all open Minitab windows so that they overlap with each title bar visible (if possible).

Tile Tile Window > Tile Arranges all open Minitab windows so they fit next to each other on the desktop and do not overlap (if possible). Occasionally, some Minitab windows overlap due to a minimum size requirement.

Minimize All Minimize All Window > Minimize All Reduces all open windows to icons and places them at the bottom of the screen. Functions like a minimize button which is found at the right of the title bar.

Restore Icons Restore Icons Window > Restore Icons Opens all icons into windows, sized as they were when last reduced to icons within the session.

Arrange Icons Arrange Icons Window > Arrange Icons Arranges icons along the bottom of the Minitab window.

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Index A

Arrange Icons (Window menu) ..................................... 2 Arranging ...................................................................... 2

Icons.......................................................................... 2 Windows.................................................................... 2

C

Cascade (Window menu).............................................. 2 Close All Graphs (Window menu)................................. 1 G

Graph window............................................................... 1 Discarding ................................................................. 1

Graphs Discarding graph windows ........................................ 1

I Icons ............................................................................. 2

Restoring ................................................................... 2

K

Keyboard operations .................................................... 1 Working with windows............................................... 1

M

Minimize All (Window menu) ........................................ 2 R

Redrawing the active window....................................... 1 Refresh (Window menu)............................................... 1 Restore Icons (Window menu) ..................................... 2 T

Tile (Window menu)...................................................... 2 W

Window menu............................................................... 1 Windows

Management commands ...................................... 1, 2 Redrawing................................................................. 1 Using the keyboard to work with ............................... 1