ECHO, NOECHO
    

"Echoing" is when the commands in the body of a macro display in the Session window as they are run. ECHO and NOECHO turn echoing on and off.

By default, Minitab is set to NOECHO. In this mode, no Minitab commands or macro statements are displayed in the Session window--only the output of Minitab commands is shown. However, when you are first developing a macro, it is often helpful to see the commands so you can find errors more easily. Use ECHO to display the commands.

You can type ECHO and NOECHO in the session window before you invoke a macro or place them anywhere within the body of a macro. You can use ECHO and NOECHO several times in a macro to turn echo display on and off.

In ECHO mode, only commands in the body of the macro (that is, Minitab commands, macro statements, and invocations of macros in other files) are echoed. The template and declarations (declarations are used in local macros) are not. Text after a # is not echoed.