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Tim, I agree with Suzanne's responses to your post. I work for the
company that makes Equation Editor and licenses it to Microsoft.
Either there's an important part of what's happening that you're
leaving out in your post, or there's something you don't understand
about using Equation Editor (perhaps both).
Equation Editor is designed to use EITHER by clicking Insert>Object OR
by dragging the icon to your toolbar. It operates exactly the same
either way you do it, so it doesn't matter which method you use.
I'm not sure what "sizing" issues you're talking about. To adjust the
size of an Equation Editor equation, with Equation Editor open, the
menus at the top of the Word window aren't Word menus anymore; they're
Equation Editor menus. Click on the one labeled "Size", and choose the
Define command. Set it for whatever size you want. It's bad practice
to re-size an equation by dragging the corner of an equation, so if
you're re-sizing them that way, I suggest doing it from the Size menu
instead.
Once you're finished creating your equation, do not cut (or copy) it
from Equation Editor and paste it into your Word document. You need to
exit Equation Editor, and the way you do that is to press the Esc key
if it's in "in-place editing" mode (identified by the equation looking
like it's in your sentence when you're editing it), or by clicking the
red X in the upper right corner if it's in "separate window" mode.
(Note that there's a red X to the upper right of the Equation Editor
toolbar too, so make sure you click the correct red X. Equation
Editor's red X is smaller than Word's red X. If you click the red X
and the Equation Editor toolbar goes away, but the hashed lines remain
around the equation, all you did was close the Equation Editor
toolbar. To get the toolbar back, either double-click an equation or
open Equation Editor again to create a new equation.)
--
Bob Mathews
Director of Training
Design Science, Inc.
bobm at dessci.com
http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news
FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType
MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor
On 10-Sep-2008, Tim Brown wrote:
> If you drag the Equations Editor icon to your toolbar before ever
> opening the Equations Editor, it will give you a much small
> dialog box that appears in the body of your text. It is much more
> convenient. This will only work if you drag the icon to your
> toolbar before ever opening the Equations Editor.
> If you open it before doing this, it won't work. If you have already
> opened the Equations Editor, you will have to reinstall Office to
> get it to work as I described.
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Maybe I could describe it better, but all I know is that the Equations Editor
(in Office 2000) works differently if you drag the icon to the toolbar before
ever opening it. If you open Equations Editor (even once) before you drag the
icon to the tool bar, it just funtions a bit differently. If you uninstall
office and then reinstall it and then drag the icon to the toolbar before
opening the Equations Editor, you will see what I mean. Maybe it is specific
to Office 2000.
I have had this discussion with our tech dept and they agree that it does
work differently, but they have no idea why.
"Bob Mathews" wrote:
> Tim, I agree with Suzanne's responses to your post. I work for the
> company that makes Equation Editor and licenses it to Microsoft.
> Either there's an important part of what's happening that you're
> leaving out in your post, or there's something you don't understand
> about using Equation Editor (perhaps both).
>
> Equation Editor is designed to use EITHER by clicking Insert>Object OR
> by dragging the icon to your toolbar. It operates exactly the same
> either way you do it, so it doesn't matter which method you use.
>
> I'm not sure what "sizing" issues you're talking about. To adjust the
> size of an Equation Editor equation, with Equation Editor open, the
> menus at the top of the Word window aren't Word menus anymore; they're
> Equation Editor menus. Click on the one labeled "Size", and choose the
> Define command. Set it for whatever size you want. It's bad practice
> to re-size an equation by dragging the corner of an equation, so if
> you're re-sizing them that way, I suggest doing it from the Size menu
> instead.
>
> Once you're finished creating your equation, do not cut (or copy) it
> from Equation Editor and paste it into your Word document. You need to
> exit Equation Editor, and the way you do that is to press the Esc key
> if it's in "in-place editing" mode (identified by the equation looking
> like it's in your sentence when you're editing it), or by clicking the
> red X in the upper right corner if it's in "separate window" mode.
> (Note that there's a red X to the upper right of the Equation Editor
> toolbar too, so make sure you click the correct red X. Equation
> Editor's red X is smaller than Word's red X. If you click the red X
> and the Equation Editor toolbar goes away, but the hashed lines remain
> around the equation, all you did was close the Equation Editor
> toolbar. To get the toolbar back, either double-click an equation or
> open Equation Editor again to create a new equation.)
>
> --
> Bob Mathews
> Director of Training
> Design Science, Inc.
> bobm at dessci.com
> http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news
> FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType
> MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor
>
> On 10-Sep-2008, Tim Brown wrote:
>
> > If you drag the Equations Editor icon to your toolbar before ever
> > opening the Equations Editor, it will give you a much small
> > dialog box that appears in the body of your text. It is much more
> > convenient. This will only work if you drag the icon to your
> > toolbar before ever opening the Equations Editor.
> > If you open it before doing this, it won't work. If you have already
> > opened the Equations Editor, you will have to reinstall Office to
> > get it to work as I described.
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The Equation Editor icon has been on the toolbar of my Word 2003 so long I'm
not sure whether I used it before putting the icon there. What I have
noticed is that occasionally, the dialog box will revert to the larger one.
It seems totally random.
"Tim Brown" wrote:
> Maybe I could describe it better, but all I know is that the Equations Editor
> (in Office 2000) works differently if you drag the icon to the toolbar before
> ever opening it. If you open Equations Editor (even once) before you drag the
> icon to the tool bar, it just funtions a bit differently. If you uninstall
> office and then reinstall it and then drag the icon to the toolbar before
> opening the Equations Editor, you will see what I mean. Maybe it is specific
> to Office 2000.
>
> I have had this discussion with our tech dept and they agree that it does
> work differently, but they have no idea why.
>
>
> "Bob Mathews" wrote:
>
> > Tim, I agree with Suzanne's responses to your post. I work for the
> > company that makes Equation Editor and licenses it to Microsoft.
> > Either there's an important part of what's happening that you're
> > leaving out in your post, or there's something you don't understand
> > about using Equation Editor (perhaps both).
> >
> > Equation Editor is designed to use EITHER by clicking Insert>Object OR
> > by dragging the icon to your toolbar. It operates exactly the same
> > either way you do it, so it doesn't matter which method you use.
> >
> > I'm not sure what "sizing" issues you're talking about. To adjust the
> > size of an Equation Editor equation, with Equation Editor open, the
> > menus at the top of the Word window aren't Word menus anymore; they're
> > Equation Editor menus. Click on the one labeled "Size", and choose the
> > Define command. Set it for whatever size you want. It's bad practice
> > to re-size an equation by dragging the corner of an equation, so if
> > you're re-sizing them that way, I suggest doing it from the Size menu
> > instead.
> >
> > Once you're finished creating your equation, do not cut (or copy) it
> > from Equation Editor and paste it into your Word document. You need to
> > exit Equation Editor, and the way you do that is to press the Esc key
> > if it's in "in-place editing" mode (identified by the equation looking
> > like it's in your sentence when you're editing it), or by clicking the
> > red X in the upper right corner if it's in "separate window" mode.
> > (Note that there's a red X to the upper right of the Equation Editor
> > toolbar too, so make sure you click the correct red X. Equation
> > Editor's red X is smaller than Word's red X. If you click the red X
> > and the Equation Editor toolbar goes away, but the hashed lines remain
> > around the equation, all you did was close the Equation Editor
> > toolbar. To get the toolbar back, either double-click an equation or
> > open Equation Editor again to create a new equation.)
> >
> > --
> > Bob Mathews
> > Director of Training
> > Design Science, Inc.
> > bobm at dessci.com
> > http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news
> > FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType
> > MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor
> >
> > On 10-Sep-2008, Tim Brown wrote:
> >
> > > If you drag the Equations Editor icon to your toolbar before ever
> > > opening the Equations Editor, it will give you a much small
> > > dialog box that appears in the body of your text. It is much more
> > > convenient. This will only work if you drag the icon to your
> > > toolbar before ever opening the Equations Editor.
> > > If you open it before doing this, it won't work. If you have already
> > > opened the Equations Editor, you will have to reinstall Office to
> > > get it to work as I described.
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I think I'm having the same problem as Mark Sheely. I'm using Office 2007
and I would like to have Equation Editor on the Quick Access Toolbar. I can
find "Insert Object" under "Customize" and put it in the Tollbar, but Insert
Object doesn't expand to allow me to put just Equation Editor up there. I
still have to open Insert Object and scroll down to pick Equation Editor 3.0.
Also, at seemingly random times, an equation I've written in Eq. Editor sits
above the text in my Word 2007 document, and I have to manually format it to
go "In Front of Text" to get it in line with the text. It is infuriating and
time consuming!
"Bob Mathews" wrote:
> Tim, I agree with Suzanne's responses to your post. I work for the
> company that makes Equation Editor and licenses it to Microsoft.
> Either there's an important part of what's happening that you're
> leaving out in your post, or there's something you don't understand
> about using Equation Editor (perhaps both).
>
> Equation Editor is designed to use EITHER by clicking Insert>Object OR
> by dragging the icon to your toolbar. It operates exactly the same
> either way you do it, so it doesn't matter which method you use.
>
> I'm not sure what "sizing" issues you're talking about. To adjust the
> size of an Equation Editor equation, with Equation Editor open, the
> menus at the top of the Word window aren't Word menus anymore; they're
> Equation Editor menus. Click on the one labeled "Size", and choose the
> Define command. Set it for whatever size you want. It's bad practice
> to re-size an equation by dragging the corner of an equation, so if
> you're re-sizing them that way, I suggest doing it from the Size menu
> instead.
>
> Once you're finished creating your equation, do not cut (or copy) it
> from Equation Editor and paste it into your Word document. You need to
> exit Equation Editor, and the way you do that is to press the Esc key
> if it's in "in-place editing" mode (identified by the equation looking
> like it's in your sentence when you're editing it), or by clicking the
> red X in the upper right corner if it's in "separate window" mode.
> (Note that there's a red X to the upper right of the Equation Editor
> toolbar too, so make sure you click the correct red X. Equation
> Editor's red X is smaller than Word's red X. If you click the red X
> and the Equation Editor toolbar goes away, but the hashed lines remain
> around the equation, all you did was close the Equation Editor
> toolbar. To get the toolbar back, either double-click an equation or
> open Equation Editor again to create a new equation.)
>
> --
> Bob Mathews
> Director of Training
> Design Science, Inc.
> bobm at dessci.com
> http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news
> FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType
> MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor
>
> On 10-Sep-2008, Tim Brown wrote:
>
> > If you drag the Equations Editor icon to your toolbar before ever
> > opening the Equations Editor, it will give you a much small
> > dialog box that appears in the body of your text. It is much more
> > convenient. This will only work if you drag the icon to your
> > toolbar before ever opening the Equations Editor.
> > If you open it before doing this, it won't work. If you have already
> > opened the Equations Editor, you will have to reinstall Office to
> > get it to work as I described.
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On 15-Sep-2008, R Merriman wrote:
> I think I'm having the same problem as Mark Sheely. I'm using
> Office 2007 and I would like to have Equation Editor on the Quick
> Access Toolbar. I can find "Insert Object" under "Customize" and
> put it in the Tollbar, but Insert Object doesn't expand to allow me
> to put just Equation Editor up there. I still have to open Insert
> Object and scroll down to pick Equation Editor 3.0.
This requires recording (or writing) a macro. We have an article about
putting an EE icon on the QAT:
http://www.dessci.com/en/support/mathtype/tsn/tsn124.htm
> Also, at seemingly random times, an equation I've written in Eq.
> Editor sits above the text in my Word 2007 document, and I have
> to manually format it to go "In Front of Text" to get it in line
> with
> the text. It is infuriating and time consuming!
I can imagine it is, but if it's truly random, I'm afraid I don't have
a solution for you. Perhaps someone else does. The place in Options
where you set paste options is in Advanced > Cut, Copy, and Paste.
--
Bob Mathews
Director of Training
Design Science, Inc.
bobm at dessci.com
http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news
FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType
MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor
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I have Word 2003 at home and Word 2007 at the office. Until recently, I
created all documents at home so I could learn Word 2007 at an easier pace.
Inexplicably, the MT Extra font disappeared from my computer at home so my
Equation Editor won't work. No luck yet fixing that.
The Equation Editor that comes with Word 2007 doesn't seem to have a option
to change the font size so the equations and formulas in my documents (I
teach math) are practically illegible. Is there a way to enlarge the
Equation Editor objects in Word 2007?
"Bob Mathews" wrote:
> On 15-Sep-2008, R Merriman wrote:
>
> > I think I'm having the same problem as Mark Sheely. I'm using
> > Office 2007 and I would like to have Equation Editor on the Quick
> > Access Toolbar. I can find "Insert Object" under "Customize" and
> > put it in the Tollbar, but Insert Object doesn't expand to allow me
> > to put just Equation Editor up there. I still have to open Insert
> > Object and scroll down to pick Equation Editor 3.0.
>
> This requires recording (or writing) a macro. We have an article about
> putting an EE icon on the QAT:
> http://www.dessci.com/en/support/mathtype/tsn/tsn124.htm
>
> > Also, at seemingly random times, an equation I've written in Eq.
> > Editor sits above the text in my Word 2007 document, and I have
> > to manually format it to go "In Front of Text" to get it in line
> > with
> > the text. It is infuriating and time consuming!
>
> I can imagine it is, but if it's truly random, I'm afraid I don't have
> a solution for you. Perhaps someone else does. The place in Options
> where you set paste options is in Advanced > Cut, Copy, and Paste.
>
> --
> Bob Mathews
> Director of Training
> Design Science, Inc.
> bobm at dessci.com
> http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news
> FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType
> MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor
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On 17-Oct-2008, S Hord wrote:
> I have Word 2003 at home and Word 2007 at the office. Until
> recently, I created all documents at home so I could learn
> Word 2007 at an easier pace. Inexplicably, the MT Extra font
> disappeared from my computer at home so my Equation Editor
> won't work. No luck yet fixing that.
This won't help the "inexplicably" part, but one way to get MT Extra
back is to download the MathType fonts from our website. They're free,
and you don't need MathType to be able to use them. One of them is MT
Extra. You can download the fonts here:
http://www.dessci.com/en/dl/fonts
> The Equation Editor that comes with Word 2007 doesn't seem
> to have a option to change the font size so the equations and
> formulas in my documents (I teach math) are practically illegible.
> Is there a way to enlarge the Equation Editor objects in Word 2007?
You may not know, but the same Equation Editor that was included with
previous versions of Word is also included in Word 2007. There are 2
equation editors -- the one you see on the Insert tab, and the one
affectionately known as Microsoft Equation. If you create equations at
the office with Word 2007 using the new equation editor, you won't be
able to edit the equations at home with Word 2003. If you use the old
Equation Editor, you can. To get to Microsoft Equation, on the Insert
tab, click Object. The Insert Object dialog looks the same as it did
in previous versions of Word. We have instructions on how to put an
"Insert Equation" button on the Quick Access Toolbar so you don't have
to click Insert > Object every time:
http://www.dessci.com/en/support/mathtype/tsn/tsn124.htm
--
Bob Mathews
Director of Training
Design Science, Inc.
bobm at dessci.com
http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news
FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType
MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor
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"Bob Mathews" wrote:
> On 17-Oct-2008, S Hord wrote:
>
> > I have Word 2003 at home and Word 2007 at the office. Until
> > recently, I created all documents at home so I could learn
> > Word 2007 at an easier pace. Inexplicably, the MT Extra font
> > disappeared from my computer at home so my Equation Editor
> > won't work. No luck yet fixing that.
>
> This won't help the "inexplicably" part, but one way to get MT Extra
> back is to download the MathType fonts from our website. They're free,
> and you don't need MathType to be able to use them. One of them is MT
> Extra. You can download the fonts here:
> http://www.dessci.com/en/dl/fonts
>
> > The Equation Editor that comes with Word 2007 doesn't seem
> > to have a option to change the font size so the equations and
> > formulas in my documents (I teach math) are practically illegible.
> > Is there a way to enlarge the Equation Editor objects in Word 2007?
>
> You may not know, but the same Equation Editor that was included with
> previous versions of Word is also included in Word 2007. There are 2
> equation editors -- the one you see on the Insert tab, and the one
> affectionately known as Microsoft Equation. If you create equations at
> the office with Word 2007 using the new equation editor, you won't be
> able to edit the equations at home with Word 2003. If you use the old
> Equation Editor, you can. To get to Microsoft Equation, on the Insert
> tab, click Object. The Insert Object dialog looks the same as it did
> in previous versions of Word. We have instructions on how to put an
> "Insert Equation" button on the Quick Access Toolbar so you don't have
> to click Insert > Object every time:
> http://www.dessci.com/en/support/mathtype/tsn/tsn124.htm
>
> --
> Bob Mathews
> Director of Training
> Design Science, Inc.
> bobm at dessci.com
> http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news
> FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType
> MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor
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"Bob Mathews" wrote:
> On 17-Oct-2008, S Hord wrote:
>
> > I have Word 2003 at home and Word 2007 at the office. Until
> > recently, I created all documents at home so I could learn
> > Word 2007 at an easier pace. Inexplicably, the MT Extra font
> > disappeared from my computer at home so my Equation Editor
> > won't work. No luck yet fixing that.
>
> This won't help the "inexplicably" part, but one way to get MT Extra
> back is to download the MathType fonts from our website. They're free,
> and you don't need MathType to be able to use them. One of them is MT
> Extra. You can download the fonts here:
> http://www.dessci.com/en/dl/fonts
>
> > The Equation Editor that comes with Word 2007 doesn't seem
> > to have a option to change the font size so the equations and
> > formulas in my documents (I teach math) are practically illegible.
> > Is there a way to enlarge the Equation Editor objects in Word 2007?
>
> You may not know, but the same Equation Editor that was included with
> previous versions of Word is also included in Word 2007. There are 2
> equation editors -- the one you see on the Insert tab, and the one
> affectionately known as Microsoft Equation. If you create equations at
> the office with Word 2007 using the new equation editor, you won't be
> able to edit the equations at home with Word 2003. If you use the old
> Equation Editor, you can. To get to Microsoft Equation, on the Insert
> tab, click Object. The Insert Object dialog looks the same as it did
> in previous versions of Word. We have instructions on how to put an
> "Insert Equation" button on the Quick Access Toolbar so you don't have
> to click Insert > Object every time:
> http://www.dessci.com/en/support/mathtype/tsn/tsn124.htm
>
> --
> Bob Mathews
> Director of Training
> Design Science, Inc.
> bobm at dessci.com
> http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news
> FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType
> MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor
>
I followed your instructions for creating a button to activate the Equation
Editor with a macro button on the Quick Access Toolbar. Clicking on the
button does activate the Equation Editor but the Equation Editor toolbar does
not operate. In particular, I can't choose the font style and size. Is
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Barry, with the Equation Editor open, the Equation Editor menus
replace the Word menus (Ribbon in Word 2007). With Equation Editor
open, you should see File, Edit, View, Format, Style, Size, Window,
and Help menus in the place where Word's menus ought to be. These are
Equation Editor menus. Click Style > Define to change the fonts, and
Size > Define to change the sizes. Note that while you CAN change
LCGreek, UCGreek, and Symbol styles to be any style you want, setting
them to anything other than Symbol font will have unpredictable
results.
--
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Director of Training
Design Science, Inc.
bobm at dessci.com
http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news
FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType
MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor
On 16-Nov-2008, BarryB wrote:
> I followed your instructions for creating a button to activate
> the Equation Editor with a macro button on the Quick Access
> Toolbar. Clicking on the button does activate the Equation
> Editor but the Equation Editor toolbar does not operate. In
> particular, I can't choose the font style and size. Is
> there a way to make the Equation Editor toolbar work?
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