Use the Open Worksheet > Options box to specify exactly which rows to import. Just focus on bringing over the raw dataset into Minitab. Because of this difference, you want to avoid bringing over any header or footer information from Excel. Minitab, as a statistical software package, requires the data to be in column-wise format (which is why it's easy to manipulate data with the Data menu in Minitab). Since Excel is a general, cell-based spreadsheet, your document may have data in any row or column with formulas scattered in between. Then you can click “Options” to specify which data in the worksheet you want to import. Click “Preview” to view how Minitab is recognizing the data in the worksheet. Navigate to your Excel file and select it.īut before you click “Open,” take a look at the buttons that appear at the bottom of the dialog box after you select the Excel file. In the Open Worksheet dialog box, the first step is to click the “Files of Type” drop-down list and choose “All.” This lets us see all file types in the folder. The simplest import of an Excel file is by using the File > Open Worksheet command in Minitab. To set up a connection between Minitab and Excel, we need to tell Minitab the file path (directories, folders, etc.) to where that Excel file lives. No more copy-and-paste! Importing Data from Excel Let's look at some ways you can bring data into Minitab from Excel that will allow you to setup a more permanent connection between the two. Do you have data in Microsoft Excel that gets updated on a daily or weekly basis? Instead of copy-and-pasting the entire dataset over to Minitab every time or hunting to find where you left off last time, what if you could open Minitab and all of the new data was automatically imported?

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