Math in Office Links
I started this blog in 2006 and now it’s 2012. How time flies! At this point it seems worthwhile to post links to previous posts grouped according to subject. The present post provides links relevant to the main theme of the blog, math editing and display in Microsoft Office. Eventually it would be nice to have a book on this subject. A future post will provide links to a secondary theme, RichEdit-specific documentation.
A number of readers have provided auxiliary information, “cheat sheets”, short cuts, etc. I’d like to collect a list of these, so if you have links to such information please send them to me and I’ll post them. Also please feel free to add such links as comments to this post.
Editing Math Using Keyboard
Formula Autobuildup in Word 2007
Keyboard Entry of Subscripts and Superscripts
Using Left/Right Arrow Keys in Mathematical Text
Subscript and Superscript Bases
When Formula Autobuildup Occurs
Linear Format Notations for Mathematics
Editing Math using Ribbon, Dialogs, Context Menus
Math Ribbon Entry of Subscripts and Superscripts
Formatting
Using Math Italic and Bold in Word 2007
Sans Serif Mathematical Symbols
Paragraphs and Paragraph Formatting
Restricted Math Zone Character Formatting
Breaking Equations into Multiple Lines
Default Document Math Properties
Math Font
Special Capabilities of a Math Font
Equation Numbering
Cool Equation Number Macros for Word 2007
Versions
Improved MathML support in Word 2007
Demos
Article/Video on Murray Sargent and Math in Office
Entering Math via the Linear Format
Background
High-Quality Editing and Display of Mathematical Text in Office 2007
Creating Math Web Documents using Word 2007
Hidden Math Features in Word 2007
Math Find/Replace and Rich Text Searches
Converting Equations from MathType to Word 2007's Equation Format
Comments
Anonymous
January 09, 2012
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January 14, 2012
Great post! I am planning to read all these links to improve my understanding of Math in Office so that I can improve my notation.Anonymous
February 01, 2012
I am trying to find answer of this question in topic, and I found this blog, great. I remember when I first installed office2010, it by default is italic when Alt+= is pressed, but now it is upright by default, I have to Ctrl+I every time. Where can I set that?Anonymous
February 07, 2012
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February 09, 2012
I'd like to find out how to turn off the default italicization in a math zone as well as how to turn it back on. Chemists would probably like to have it off at least in typing chemical formulas with subscripts and superscripts. Perhaps you can turn it back on by going to the math options menu (Tools...) and clicking on Defaults... I find that both Word 2010 and RichEdit display █(c@d@e@f)┤|_b^a as a column vector followed by a large vertical bar of the same height. Perhaps you need to build up the expression. Do the subscript b and superscript a show up as scripts?Anonymous
February 09, 2012
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February 11, 2012
If the option tomDontGrowWithContent (64) is present, delimiters don't grow. How are you declaring the ├ ┤| bracket function? Ordinarily brackets grow unless you specify otherwise.Anonymous
February 11, 2012
I don't set any options for the brackets but the vertical bar doesn't grow with the scripts added. Unfortunately, I even don't know programming methods of setting options for brackets stretching. I have no documentation/access to TOM2. Maybe the same option fGrowWithContent(128) mentioned in the document "Unicode Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics Version 3" may solve the problem, but it seems to work only with n-ary operators and I don't know how to construct plain-text expression with this option in my case.