PRELIMINARY NOTES
The paper, "Introduction to Minitab Local Macros," was presented at the Ninth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics which was held at the Reno Hilton in Reno, Nevada, November 7-10, 1996. In the paper, Minitab's local macro facility is introduced, illustrated, and applied. A general discussion includes the structure of local macros, how to invoke them, interactivity, and other fundamental concepts. Their use for extending Minitab and for enhancing classroom presentation is examined.
This electronic version of the paper has been designed explicitly for Windows platforms. Although you can get significant information from the electronic version without anything but your Web browser, to get the most you will need to have MINITAB Release 11 on your hard disk. To obtain information about MINITAB, click this link: Information About MINITAB .
You should also configure your browser to associate the extensions mtw and mac with the MINITAB executable, mtb11.exe. To do that in Netscape, proceed as follows:
Choose Options > General
Preferences...
Click the Helpers tab
Click the Create New Type...
button
Type "application"
in the Mime Type text box
Type "minitab" in
the Mime SubType text box
Click OK
Type "mtw, mac"
in the File Extensions text box
Select the Launch the Application
option button for the Action
Click the Browse...
button
Select the appropriate directory
and file name for the MINITAB executable
Click OK
Click OK
One word of caution: At the present time, it is necessary to close MINITAB following each visit to it; this problem should be alleviated in future releases.
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