Writing And Editing Equations In Office 2011 For Mac

The goal of this hint is to automate the process of re-creating an Equation Editor equation in Microsoft Word. Note: This hint applies to equations created in Microsoft Word using Equation Editor. It does not apply to the new kind of equations that can be created in Office 2011.

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Microsoft Word 2007 and RichEdit 6.0 introduced the native Office math facility.PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote followed suit in 2010, and Mac Word followed in 2011.But ironically the native math facility hasn’t had a recognizable name. Office 2011 for Mac offers two ways for you to represent numeric equations that aren’t possible to type from the keyboard. To solve this equation problem: The Equation option in Word 2011. The Equation Editor in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint within Office 2011. I looks like Microsoft Word 2011 is the only program in Office 2011 (Mac) that has the Equation Editor. You start an equation from the Document Elements tab on the Ribbon, by clicking Equation or the drop-down menu arrow and selecting a built-in equation. In keeping with making your projects more visual in Office 2011 for Mac, Excel 2011 now offers conditional formatting tools to make your spreadsheets easier to understand, and not just a wall of data.

Writing And Editing Equations In Office 2011 For Mac Mac

We have many large documents that contain hundreds of equation objects each. When attempting to revise some of these documents in Word 2011, the equation objects appeard to be corrupted. Double clicking on them would open the object in Equation Editor, but changes were not reflected in the document.

In addition, the baselines for each equation object did not line up with the surrounding text. The most frustrating part is that we had just invested several tens of thousands of dollars re-typesetting equations.

The only solution I could find was to open each equation object, select all of its contents and copy it, close Equation Editor, create a new equation object, and then paste the contents of the old equation. The new equation could then be edited, with changes reflected in in the document as expected. Also, the baselines were correctly aligned (although the character immediately after was usually messed up). Unfortunately, this meant that thousands of equations had to be updated. Although Word 2011 can be controled by Visual Basic, Equation Editor cannot. Nor does Equation Editor support Applescript. I'm not a huge fan of Applescript, but in this case, UI Scripting came to the rescue.

I have been able to automate the entire process. Below is a script that I have applied to one of our documents, and it seems to work quite well. It could certainly be improved (such as updating equations in the current selection instead of the whole document), but it does what I need. A few notes: There are a couple delays embedded in the script. These are necessary to make sure the script doesn't get ahead of the user interface. Maybe someone can come up with a more elegant solution.

Also, Equation Editor doesn't seem to respond to the 'keystroke' command, so menu actions had to be used. If there are 'empty' equation objects in your document, Equation Editor will issue an alert that needs to be dismissed. I suppose the script could try to detect this situation (another opportunity for improvement).

Finally, in my test case, lower-case 'phi' gets converted to an alternate form. I hope this is helpful to someone else that runs into a similar situation.

For work-related reasons I recently switched from LaTeX to Word. I heavily use the MathType equations editor (in-line; not the pop-up editor) in Office for Mac 2011 14.1.0 on Mac OSX 10.8.2 Mountain Lion. I read online that the built-in MathType editor can apparently understand simple and even more sophisticated LaTeX commands. Here is an example of a list of commands that ought to work: The simplest commands, however, do not work for me. That is, I cannot use the hotkeys for superscript (^), subscript , and fraction (/) (i.e.

Most commands on page 1 of the PDF above don't work). Strangely, however, many other commands from pages 2-6 work! Is this a known bug?

Writing And Editing Equations In Office 2011 For Mac Free Download

How can I fix this problem? When will witch it out for mac.