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Thanks, Paulius. I haven’t looked over them in great detail, but I was more interested in the Equation Editor/MathType shortcuts than the Word shortcuts. Looks to be very complete. I didn’t have any trouble figuring it out, but I think some people might not understand what (for example) C-T, * … *L means. Looking at the guides, there’s plenty of room for a short explanation if you decide it’s needed.

BTW, the current version of MathType is not 5.x — it’s 6.x (6.0 for Macintosh; 6.7 for Windows).

Hi Bob

Is Design Science a Microsoft Partner? If so, you could use one of the free bug reports.

Hi Terry,

I could have mentioned this in the original post, but I figure the number of people who read a post is inversely proportional to its length, and I wanted people to read it. Actually we are a partner, and we considered this, but like most real decisions it’s a judgment call — if we use one on this, we may end up paying for one later that we need too. Or we may not. Six of one, 5 of the other. Or something like that.

Bob

I didn’t do extensive tests with Words 2007 & 2010, but all the tests I did run were successful on the document’s text. One thing that’s definitely critical to a more exhaustive test is trying other fonts & font types. I limited mine to Calibri and MT Extra.

Good suggestion on the Feedback link; I’ll try that. Thanks.

As jsher2000 already mentioned, this is not a trivial task. There may be more, but I’m aware of one product that was created for the purpose of converting scanned scientific documents into other usable formats — InftyReader. The prices of the product also bear out the fact that this isn’t easily accomplished.

So it does! I wonder what other hidden features are in there that I didn’t know. Do you know of anywhere that lists features like that?

That particular feature is in Equation Editor Help:
[indent]Contents
[/indent][indent][indent]Reference Information
[indent]Inserting mathematical templates in an equation
[indent]Inserting integrals in an equation
[/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent]In MathType Help, it’s in the Glossary under “Expanding Integrals”. There are more tips on the Design Science website, all of which will work for MathType and some will work for Equation Editor.

We’re working on making our Help content more complete and user-friendly, so if you have any suggestions, we’d value the feedback!

Bob

Dear Hans,

Here is the pictures of two equations, could you please have a check and let me know how can I type out the slim large integral sign. I have tried what you described in the previous reply. It just doesn’t work for me.

Thank you very much.

Regards

All you need to do is hold down the Shift key as you click on the integral template from the palette. This will create an “expanding integral” in both Equation Editor and MathType. Note that this works only for the integral template (from the Integrals palette on the second row of Equation Editor buttons), and not for the integral symbol (which is in the Miscellaneous Symbols palette on the top row).