Restoring Crystal Ball Simulation Results

  To restore Crystal Ball simulation results that you saved earlier:

  1. Select Run, then Restore Results. If you are using Crystal Ball in Microsoft Excel 2007 or later, choose Run, then Save or Restore, then Restore Results.

  2. When the Restore Results dialog opens, select the results file (.cbr file type) to restore and click Open.

Because you are restoring results and not simulation cell definitions or data, you do not need to reset the simulation before restoring results.

Results files can be restored at any time, regardless of whether the original workbooks are open or whether another simulation has run or not. You can open as many results files as you want — not just one as in Crystal Ball 2000 or earlier versions of Crystal Ball. However, you can only choose one at a time in the Restore Results dialog.

Note:

If you try to load results from Crystal Ball 7.3 or later into an earlier version of Crystal Ball, an error message might be displayed, explaining that the Crystal Ball data contained in the selected result set cannot be loaded. One reason this message might be displayed is that a new chart type, scatter charts, was added in Crystal Ball 7.3. In this case, it could be helpful to load the entire model, not just saved results. If you load a model containing scatter charts into an earlier version of Crystal Ball, the model will run and the scatter charts will be ignored.