On 5-Oct-2005, Topcat wrote:

I am using Microsoft Equation 3.0 in Word 2003 (11.6502.6408) SP1.
I can open EE without a problem, but when I click on any of the
symbols on the toolbar, the toolbar completely disappears and
nothing happens in the workspace although I can still see it.

Hmm. I've never seen that particular problem before. I'll pass this along to
our Tech Support department to see if they have seen the problem before.
Meanwhile, I have a couple of suggestions:

1. Make sure your Equation Editor fonts are set up properly. To do this,
open EE, then click on Style Define. These styles should be set to Symbol:
LC Greek, UC Greek, and Symbol. Everything else can be set to whatever you
want, but most likely you'll want these set to whatever your document in
Word is typed in.

2. If this doesn't fix your problem, you might consider downloading the
evaluation of MathType at the link below. You will have full functionality
of MathType for 30 days, then if you don't purchase it, it will shift to
MathType Lite, retaining all of Equation Editor's functionality plus a bit
more. Any equations you created during the evaluation period will remain
editable after the evaluation period.

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