1. Exit all other applications, including all virus scanning software.
2. Place the CD-ROM disk into your CD-ROM drive. If Autorun is enable on your system, the installation starts automaticall and you can skip steps 3 and 4.
3. From the Windows Taskbar, choose Start -> Run
4. Type the CD-ROM drive letter followed by :\SETUP (for example, D:\SETUP or click 5. Browse, locate and select eh Minitab SETUP.EXE , then click Open. Click OK.
Follow the prompts on the screen.
When the option appears, click next.
Read the License Agreement and click Next.
There is no Serial Number on your envelope. Use the Serial Number from the licensing database and click Next.
C:\Programs Files\MINITAB 14\ is the default directory and is unchanged for most installations. Click Next.
If possible, do not change the License Path. Enter the Site ID Header and the Site ID Code from the licensing database.
Choose Complete to install all Minitab features.
MINITAB 14 is the default folder. Click Next.
You can review your settings. Click Next.
Wait until the installation has completed.
You may choose to install the icon to your Desktop.
You can register online to receive periodic news on Minitab.
IMPORTANT: Applying
the MINITAB 14.2 Patch (Software Maintenance Update)
After installing MINITAB 14, apply the patch MTB142patch.exe, found in the patch directory on your CD. Double click on the icon for the executable and follow the directions for application of the patch. If this patch is not on your MINITAB 14 CD, then you should download and install MINITAB 14.2, available free on the Software Maintenance Updates web page at: http://www.minitab.com/support/maintenance/
If an earlier version of the patch, e.g., 14.11 or 14.13, is on your CD, you do NOT need to install it since the 14.2 patch supersedes it.
Click Next when the following screen appears and follow the instructions.
It may take several minutes to update your installation. You will be presented with a screen similar to the one below.
Click Finish when the update has completed.
Your Minitab installation has been upgraded to version 14.2 and is ready to run.
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Minitab 14.x - Known Problems and
Workarounds
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Item 1
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On some Windows XP machines, entering
Korean text into the MINITAB worksheet using the IME causes a runtime error.
Item 2
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If you make a certain sequence of
graphs, the computer may lock-up during graph production IF all of the
following are true:
A) Your PC has a certain graphics
chipset. This chipset seems confined to the Intel828xx Chipset.
B) You are using OpenGL under MINITAB's Tools > Options > Graphics > Other menu. (OpenGL is the default.)
C) You are using Full Hardware
Acceleration under Display Properties > Advanced > Options >
Troubleshoot. (This is also the default.)
WORKAROUND: Upgrading to the latest
video driver for your particular video card may fix this problem.
WORKAROUND: Select GDI to produce
graphs from MINITAB's Tools > Options or
turn off hardware acceleration for the video card.
Item 3
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If you copy a graph and paste it
into Word 2002 and then double-click to inplace edit
it, the inplace edit toolbar will not display and a
white space displays where the toolbar should be.
WORKAROUND: This a
Word 2002 problem. Microsoft suggests updating to the newest version of video
driver. Feedback on the newsgroup says that this workaround does not always
work.
Item 4
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Printing 3D graphs on some
PostScript printers is very slow.
WORKAROUND: Print 3D graphs using a
non-PostScript printer driver.
Item 5
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Sometimes when installing, you may
encounter the following error: "1607: Unable to install InstallShield Scripting Runtime."
WORKAROUND: This is an InstallShield bug and the workarounds for this are listed
in InstallShield's Consumer Central portion of their
support web pages:
http://Consumer.installshield.com/kb.asp?id=Q108340
Item 6
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When you append a graph to ReportPad, right-click on the ReportPad
folder in Project Manager, and then choose the Copy to Word Processor command
to copy it into Word, you may not be able to perform any other MINITAB
operations until you close Word.
Item 7
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With certain data, text on various
graphs may appear dithered (light) when displayed.
WORKAROUND:
On Windows 98, ME, and 2000 --
right-click on desktop, select properties, select 'Effects' tab, and uncheck
'Smooth edges of screen fonts'.
On Windows XP -- right-click on
desktop, select properties, select 'Appearance' tab, press 'Effects' button and
uncheck 'Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts'.
Item 8
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Graphs created using the 'Separate'
subcommand cannot be added in the Layout Tool.
Item 9
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On Windows 98 or ME, when you have
more than about 50 to 75 fairly complex graphs, you may use up the system
resources.
Item 10
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On Windows XP, typically gray areas
in some dialog box tables display white instead of gray. For example, the cells
in the top two rows of the worksheet have a white background.
WORKAROUND: This is from the Windows
XP setting Display Properties > Appearance > Windows and Buttons.
If you change this from "Windows XP style" to "Windows Classic
style" the top two rows of the worksheet display gray.
Item 11
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The silent install launches the
Adobe Acrobat Reader install even if you do not choose to install it.
WORKAROUND: This is an InstallShield bug. When creating the Response file, at the
Setup Type dialog box select Custom install, check the box of the Adobe Acrobat
Reader feature and then uncheck it. Finish the installation normally.
Item 12
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If upgrading from Release 13 to
Release 14 you may see the following error message when inserting an OLE object
into an Office or StarOffice application:
Error activating object: General OLE
error.
Item 13
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A mixture regression error occurs if
you try to use the dialog boxes to make a response trace plot, contour/surface
plot, or overlaid contour plot for a mixture model that contains more than
twenty factors.
WORKAROUND: Use the command language
to produce these plots if your mixture model contains more than twenty factors.
Item 14
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Some of the default colors chosen in
graphs may be difficult to distinguish from each other when printed by some
color printers.
WORKAROUND: Change your preferences
in Tools > Options > Graphics > Data View or Data View With Groups.
Item 15
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You may see vertical lines when
printing 3D graphs using PCL printer drivers.
WORKAROUND: Print 3D graphs using PostScript printer
drivers.
Item 16
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Macros from previous releases,
particularly those with graph commands, may not run in MINITAB Release 14. See What's New for details on converting macros.
Item 17
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If you change the size of a MINITAB
graph while in Microsoft PowerPoint, by using the MINITAB Graph Editor, the new
graph size will not be recognized by PowerPoint.
Item 18
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When editing an axis scale on a
paneled, multi-model graph where the edited axis is common among panels, the
edits are only applied to the axis of the individual panel to which the axis is
attached. The other panel(s) will separate and each have
individual axis attributes.
Item 19
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The MyFootnote
preference options are not included on graphs that utilize LAYOUT
functionality.
Item 20
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The
Crosshairs display functionality is not available for some graphs (primarily
under the Stat > Quality Tools or Stat > Control Charts
menus).