When you open a file, the file's contents are copied into the project. Therefore, if you change the data or graph contents within a project, you do not affect the original file.
If the Excel file contains multiple sheets, you can control the import of each sheet separately.
In the web app, you cannot open XLS and XML files.
To change the default settings for importing files, choose .
Minitab can open plain text (ANSI or Unicode) files, which have an extension of .txt (text), .dat (data), or .csv (comma separated values). If the data that you want to use are in a file with an extension that is not in the drop-down list, try saving the data as a text file and then importing it. Most applications can create text files.
To change the default settings for importing files, choose .
To open a Minitab project file (MPX, MPJ) or worksheet file (MWX, MTW), choose and browse to and select the file.
To open a Minitab sample data set, go to https://support.minitab.com/datasets/.
With the release of Minitab 19 and tabbed output, Minitab saves projects as MPX files and worksheets as MWX files. You cannot open MPX or MWX files in versions of Minitab that do not support tabbed output. You can open a project (MPJ) or a worksheet (MTW) from Minitab versions 16, 17, and 18.
To open worksheets that are stored in a Minitab project without opening the project file, complete the following steps.
You can open files from Microsoft OneDrive® and Google Drive™. In the desktop app, choose ; in the web app, choose . Minitab will prompt you to choose either Microsoft OneDrive® or Google Drive™.
You can open Google Sheets™ files in the Minitab web app and save them as part of your Minitab project. Any changes you make to the data in Minitab will not affect your original Google Sheets™ file.
When you import a Google Sheets™ file, the first row in each column is imported as the column's name. Minitab recognizes and imports columns of text, numeric, and date/time data.