I would suggest, for a start, that you display text boundaries so you can
see what you are dealing with. I suspect that you are reselecting the
equation you've just inserted and inserting a new one over it.

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Make it work. i am losing my ever loving mind, and my homework which has
to
be done in this format is late. I have been trying to make it work for the
last 4 days and it just wont let me use equation editor. I can type in my
problem but when i go to to go to the next problem it deletes it. Please
some one help me. I have done this question so many times i have every
part
of it memorized. including the steps to solve it. I love word when it
works
right. This is the first problem i have had with the program.