Math in Office 2010

re: Math in Office 2010

MurrayS3 — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:36:46 GMT

One way to get MathML from Word is as plain text. For that on the equation ribbon, click on Tools and then choose the "Copy MathML to the clipboard as plain text" option. The selection has to select text in a math zone. Then you can paste the resulting MathML into, for example, NotePad. Alternatively you can look for the clipboard formats "MathML" and "MathML Presentation". Probably you can access these formats using Word's object model. I haven't tried this approach, though.

re: Math in Office 2010

Fernand Brunschwig — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:23:51 GMT

Murray - you said, "There’s nice MathML import/export support, which is documented here (I’ll do a separate post about that documentation). In particular, when the ODF file formats are used in Office 2010 applications, the math content is represented using MathML 2.0. And you can copy MathML to/from math engines such as Mathematica and Maple."

But the "here" link leads nowhere! and I can't find anything about how to export a formula from Word 2010 into pure MathML format. Is it just a regular simple copy/paste?

re: Math in Office 2010

MurrayS3 — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:33:34 GMT

This is fixed in PowerPoint 2010 and OneNote 2010, but not in Word 2010. I'll try to get it fixed in the next version of Word. The work around is to put the dot back on the i using i\dot, but that's clearly inconvenient. The criterion as to when to suppress the dot can be a little tricky. For i\tilde, the dot should be suppressed, but should it be for (ij)\tilde? PowerPoint 2010 and OneNote 2010 don't suppress it unless there's only single i or j inside the accent object. Then if you don't want the dots you have to use the special Unicode math alphabetics U+1D6A4 and U+1D6A5. You can also use these dotless versions in Word.

re: Math in Office 2010

Nali — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:09:53 GMT

Please, in Word 2010 math zone try to type e.g.:

(y(x)=sin x)\Ubar

and you will see that the dot above the "i" disappears. The same result I get also for \ubar.

Please, could you change this behaviour in Office 15?

Thank you.

re: Math in Office 2010

Marc — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:16:36 GMT

"[...] when the ODF file formats are used in Office 2010 applications, the math content is represented using MathML 2.0. "

Is something I can't get working..

re: Math in Office 2010

Nali — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:49:31 GMT

Thank you for your reply, and sorry for the missunderstanding (I described my problem incorrectly).

I don't want to change the alignment of the displayed equation. I need to change the alignment of the last row of the text above the displayed equation. This text row should be aligned left, but the paragraph as a whole should be justified (Ctrl+J), and displayed equation (in the text paragraph) should be centered.

Thank you.

re: Math in Office 2010

MurrayS — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:18:31 GMT

On the math ribbon go to Tools and click on the arrow in the lower right corner. This brings up a dialog that has a listbox with default display equation alignments. Choose Left.

re: Math in Office 2010

Nali — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:03:16 GMT

Hi, excuse me, but I have following issue:

In Word 2007/2010 or PowerPoint 2010, I type a long text paragraph with an Inline equation somewhere in the text paragraph, and justify (Ctrl+J) the paragraph. Then I change the equation from Inline to Display (now, the equation is in its Math paragraph, and before and after the equation are softbreaks). The last line of the text before the equation should be Align Left, but it is not (and I must add manual Tab before the first softbreak to align left the last text line before the equation).

Please, is it possible to change the settings of the text paragraph in Word/PowerPoint to be the last text line before the Displayed equation left align? Or will be it possible in Office 15?

Thank you.

re: Math in Office 2010

Christian — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:27:52 GMT

The lack of proper equation numbering support is a real deal breaker - as has already been noted - it also seems such an obvious feature that its difficult to understand why it still has not been implemented. Other solutions such as using a 3 column table help, but are not robust enough (change the page layout and your equation numbers can disappear, problems with long equations etc.etc.

re: Math in Office 2010

Penny Wyatt — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:55:05 GMT

Exciting stuff Murray, congratulations on getting it all into Office 14!