back in 1992, i had two little books published by kendall/hunt ... 1. MINITAB: An Introduction 2. MINITAB: An Introduction for Business this was back when release 8 was around and commands were the thing of the day table of contents looked liked (for #1): 1. overview to minitab 2. computer requirements 3. structure of minitab 8 4. using release 8 of minitab 5. getting help within minitab 6. entering and editing data 7. saving data and work 8. making a hard copy of your work 9. making new columns of data from old columns 10. making graphs, plots, and tables 11. general purpose statistics using minitab's data files 12. generating data at random 13. using minitabs macros 14. additional exercises 15. minitab commands/index clearly, some updating is called for but, it just so happens that i have the disk that this manual is on ... and, it would be a rather simple thing to do to do some editing ... AND POST IT TO MY SERVER ... MAYBE, CHAPTER BY CHAPTER would any of you find this helpful ... for yourself and/or for your students? if so ... what suggestions would you make as to "for sure" things to put in it ... ?? i will do a quick cut and paste ... and put part on my webpage ... just to give some idea of what could be (though lots of editing will be needed of course) thanks for your assistance _________________________________________________________ dennis roberts, educational psychology, penn state university 208 cedar, AC 8148632401, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/drober~1.htm ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================