Enter the %LSub c1-c5 command and press Enter to go to the next line. Press Ctrl + L to open the command-line editor.Ģ1. Enter 11 11.5 * 12.5 13 in the Specifications column.Ģ0. In the worksheet, create a new column calledġ9. In the Store in column(s): section, enterġ8. Go to the Calc menu, then Random and then selectġ5. Return to Minitab and test the macro by first generating random data. Ensure that the TSPLOT command appears as follows:ġ3. Change the TSPLOT commands by removing the GROUP and Reference subcommands. Important: When you paste the data, have the cursor on the blank shaded cell under C1 but above Row 1. Start up MINITAB or if it's already running, choose File>New to open up a new worksheet, type ctrl V to paste it.

Change the header section and declarations to the commands shown in the following screenshot:ġ1. To download into MINITAB, type ctrl A to highlight and ctrl C to copy.

Delete all references to SPEC and GROUP from the NOSPEC macro.ġ0. For the second Llayout commands, change the macro name toĩ. Copy the entire Llayout macro and paste this afterħ. Finish the macro by entering the next section for no specifications used and ending the macro.Ħ. Enter the next section for the specifications that have been used as a column and to check if the number of specifications and the number of columns are the same.ĥ. Enter the first part of the IF statements as a way to check if the specification subcommand has been used and to identify if it is a constant.Ĥ. Enter the values shown in the following screenshot into Notepad for the macro name, subcommand, and variables to be defined.ģ. Open a new Notepad and save the file as LSub.mac in the macro folder.Ģ. We will also add a subcommand to use specifications as either a constant or a column:ġ. The following steps will convert the Llayout macro to use any number of columns as an input.

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