APPENDIX A
CRYSTAL BALL TUTORIAL
for
OPR 9721
Written by Robert Buckley
December 2004
Preliminary Version
To begin using Crystal Ball, click on the Crystal Ball icon, located on the desktop (shown below).
This will open an Excel spreadsheet. Before the spreadsheet opens completely, a question box will appear, prompting you to either “Disable Macros” or “Enable Macros”. Select “Enable Macros”, and “Accept” the licensing agreement that follows. This will allow Crystal Ball to load properly in Excel.
In the snapshot below, notice that the Crystal Ball toolbar has been added to the Excel worksheet, just below the usual Excel toolbar. Most of the work performed in Crystal Ball will be done using this toolbar.
Opening a file for use with Crystal Ball is the same as opening a file with Excel. In fact, all of the standard Excel procedures, i.e. opening/closing/saving files, implementing functions in cells, etc., are all Excel......
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