Opening, Saving, Printing, and Copying Graphs Overviewoverview see also
Opening, Saving, Printing, and Copying Graphs OverviewUse the following options to open, save, and close your graphs, publish your graphs, and share them with other applications.
Graphs are part of your project. When you save a project, you are also saving any open Graph windows. Those Graph windows will reappear when you reopen the project. You can open graphs that are inside other project files.
You can also save a graph into a separate file, in one of several graphics formats. The graph file can be opened in another Minitab project or in another application.
If you want to view and edit that graph in other Minitab projects, save the graph in a Minitab Graphics Format (MGF) file.
If you want to view the graph in another application, such as in Microsoft Word or on a web page, you can save the graph in a file format such as bitmap (BMP) or JPEG (JPG).
For details, see File formats for saving graphs .
If you save a graph as a Minitab Graphics Format (MGF) file, you can then re-open that file in Minitab. You can then view and edit the graph. When you close a graph, you remove it from the project. See Opening and Closing Graphs.
You can copy and paste Minitab graphs into other applications. See Copying and Pasting Graphs.
If you want the graph to appear in a printed word processing document at the highest-possible resolution, you can print the graph to an Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file, or other types of printer files. These printer files create images that cannot be viewed in the word processing program, but will print at the best quality. See To save a graph as a printer file.
You can also print the graph on old-fashioned paper-see Printing Graphs.