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I would like to have each equation centered on a line, but have the equation
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Use a Center Tab to center your equation, use a Right Tab to right align your
number. "Anna M." wrote: I would like to have each equation centered on a line, but have the equation number right-flushed. How do I do that? |
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But note that if you do this, you will be unable to refer to the caption
alone, as the entire paragraph (including the equation) will be considered part of the caption. A workaround is to create a single-row, two-column borderless table. Put the caption in the right cell (formatted just wide enough to contain it) and the equation in the left, centered, with a left indent to equal the width of the right cell. To facilitate entering equations in this format, save a dummy equation-table as an AutoText entry. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "SVC" wrote in message ... Use a Center Tab to center your equation, use a Right Tab to right align your number. "Anna M." wrote: I would like to have each equation centered on a line, but have the equation number right-flushed. How do I do that? |
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This post has helped me, too--thanks.
you will be unable to refer to the caption alone, as the entire paragraph (including the equation) will be considered part of the caption. I hope eventually Microsoft will fix this bug, which they have not done in the latest version of Word 2007. (I'd tell you exactly what version I have, but with the wonderful new user interface, I can't figure out how to look up what it is. Whatever became of help/about?) "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: But note that if you do this, you will be unable to refer to the caption alone, as the entire paragraph (including the equation) will be considered part of the caption. A workaround is to create a single-row, two-column borderless table. Put the caption in the right cell (formatted just wide enough to contain it) and the equation in the left, centered, with a left indent to equal the width of the right cell. To facilitate entering equations in this format, save a dummy equation-table as an AutoText entry. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "SVC" wrote in message ... Use a Center Tab to center your equation, use a Right Tab to right align your number. "Anna M." wrote: I would like to have each equation centered on a line, but have the equation number right-flushed. How do I do that? |
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Hi Elbert,
In Word 2007 you can get to the version number through Word Options in the 'Resources' dialog (Alt, T, O, R) or (Alt, F, I, R) The old HelpAbout dialog is still available, but doesn't have a keyboard shortcut and the old Word 2003 one ( Alt, H, A) doesn't work in Word 2007. You can get to the old dialog through (a) the 'About' button in Resources (via the above route); (b) by using View=Macros=View Macros, selecting 'Word Commands' for 'Macros in:' at the bottom of the dialog and running the 'HelpAbout' command or (c) by adding a keyboard shortcut in Office Button=Word Options=Customize=Customize Keyboard and select All commands then 'HelpAbout' Which item are you referring to in this case as a 'bug'? Word 2007 has its own internal Equation Editor as well as the optional installation of the prior version Equation Editor. You can use 'linked styles' in Word to have the Equation caption and Equation on the same line, although it's usually cleaner to use the two column table approach Suzanne mentioned. ============ "Elbert" wrote in message ... I hope eventually Microsoft will fix this bug, which they have not done in the latest version of Word 2007. (I'd tell you exactly what version I have, but with the wonderful new user interface, I can't figure out how to look up what it is. Whatever became of help/about?) -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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Hi Bob,
Thanks for the help. I guess I should have known intuitively that the version number is a resource. Sorry to be cranky, but I've wasted days trying to figure out how to do things with Word 2007 that I could do with 2003. e.g., I had carefully customized my toolbars for 2003 so I could be very productive. Gone. I had spent hours and hours developing macros that saved me a great deal of time. Gone. And I was sure I'd love the ribbons, but I don't. Which item are you referring to in this case as a 'bug'? Word 2007 has its own internal Equation Editor as well as the optional installation of the prior version Equation Editor. Neither of these equation editors is very useful for somebody who enters a lot of equations, so I use MathType (you may recall that Word 2003 admitted that the equation editor wasn't very good and suggested an upgrade to MathType.) I insert a MathType equation and then in Word I do References/Insert caption/Equation. If I insert the caption below the equation, then later when I do References/Cross reference/Equation 1, the cross reference is just "Equation 1" as it should be. If instead I put the caption to the right of the equation (which is where I want it and I suspect most people want it), then when I do References/Cross reference/Equation 1, I get as the cross reference the equation plus the caption, which is a real mess. I followed the suggestion about using a table, and it works OK, but it's awkward and in my opinion shouldn't be necessary--a bug. I have no idea what "linked styles" are, and I hope to God I never have to figure it out in order to do something that should be simple. I'm trying to get some work done here. Thanks again, Elbert "Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote: Hi Elbert, In Word 2007 you can get to the version number through Word Options in the 'Resources' dialog (Alt, T, O, R) or (Alt, F, I, R) The old HelpAbout dialog is still available, but doesn't have a keyboard shortcut and the old Word 2003 one ( Alt, H, A) doesn't work in Word 2007. You can get to the old dialog through (a) the 'About' button in Resources (via the above route); (b) by using View=Macros=View Macros, selecting 'Word Commands' for 'Macros in:' at the bottom of the dialog and running the 'HelpAbout' command or (c) by adding a keyboard shortcut in Office Button=Word Options=Customize=Customize Keyboard and select All commands then 'HelpAbout' Which item are you referring to in this case as a 'bug'? Word 2007 has its own internal Equation Editor as well as the optional installation of the prior version Equation Editor. You can use 'linked styles' in Word to have the Equation caption and Equation on the same line, although it's usually cleaner to use the two column table approach Suzanne mentioned. ============ "Elbert" wrote in message ... I hope eventually Microsoft will fix this bug, which they have not done in the latest version of Word 2007. (I'd tell you exactly what version I have, but with the wonderful new user interface, I can't figure out how to look up what it is. Whatever became of help/about?) -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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On 29-Jan-2008, Elbert wrote:
I insert a MathType equation and then in Word I do References/ Insert caption/Equation. If I insert the caption below the equation, then later when I do References/Cross reference/Equation 1, the cross reference is just "Equation 1" as it should be. Elbert, I've been following this thread, and this is the first time you've mentioned MathType. I answer questions about Equation Editor too, but Bob and others were doing a great job so I stayed out of it. I assumed you were using the legacy Equation Editor. If you're using MathType 6, you'll have a MathType tab on the Word 2007 Ribbon. In the Insert group of the MathType tab, simply click on "Right-numbered" (there's an option for Left-numbered too), and you get an equation as well as the next number in sequence. You can format the numbers however you want, and if you're using chapter/section numbers, you can insert a break at the appropriate spot so the numbering follows. Inserting a reference to a particular equation is just as easy, and all the numbers & references will re-number if you add or remove one. You're just going to way too much trouble. -- Bob Mathews Director of Training Design Science, Inc. bobm at dessci.com http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor, TeXaide |
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Hi Elbert,
The thread you came in is titled 'Equation Line Numbers' but I'm assuming that you're not looking to line number the equation elements but to tie captions to the Equations? But first, on finding your way around in Word 2007 g... If you have created custom toolbars (rather than customizing Word's built in toolbars) in a prior version if you place that template in Word 2007's Startup folder (or attach the template (Alt, T, I) in Word 2007, your toolbars should appear in an 'Add-In' tab in Word 2007 and you can also have them be attached to the Quick Access Toolbar. Your macros should likewise be available (View Macros=View Macros) and some may need to be tweaked for differences in Word 2007. It sort of depends on what they do g. If you use keyboard shortcuts in Word 2003, many of the same shortcuts continue to work in Word 2007. There's also interactive, printable and viewable 'cheat sheets' on 'where are they now' commands/button lists here. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx Okay, back on captioning equations, (much more Suzanne and others' strongpoints g) the two cell one row table can be setup to be fairly simple to reuse in Word 2007 In Word 2007 Insert=Table and create a two column one row table. If you want the captions to follow the equation, 1. Place your cursor in the table's left cell and use Insert=Equation to put an empty equation builder control in that cell (If you're using Mathtype or the older Word 3.0 Equation choice you can select either of those through Insert=Object=Object at this point) 2. Use Reference=Insert Caption to create a caption, then cut and paste that into the right hand cell. 3. Select the whole table by clicking on the the icon above the top left of the table when you hover over that corner then right click, choose Borders and Shading (or use Table Tools=Design=Borders) and set the table to have no lines. Make any other changes you want as far as table cell sizing, or centering, etc using the Table Tools tab and the Home formatting choices. 4. With the table still selected go to Insert=Quickparts and choose 'Save Selection to Quick Part Gallery...' to create a building block. 5. In the next dialog that comes up give the building block a name, change the Gallery to 'Equations', create a new category named 'Added Equations', type a description of what this is used for and in the Options choose 'Insert content in its own paragraph' and OK. Now when you use Insert=Equation, your tabled equation, complete with numbered caption is ready to choose. There is also a way to do it with using 'linked styles' in Word 2007, but this one's fairly long already, so that will be in a separate message ======== "Elbert" wrote in message ... Hi Bob, Thanks for the help. I guess I should have known intuitively that the version number is a resource. Sorry to be cranky, but I've wasted days trying to figure out how to do things with Word 2007 that I could do with 2003. e.g., I had carefully customized my toolbars for 2003 so I could be very productive. Gone. I had spent hours and hours developing macros that saved me a great deal of time. Gone. And I was sure I'd love the ribbons, but I don't. Which item are you referring to in this case as a 'bug'? Word 2007 has its own internal Equation Editor as well as the optional installation of the prior version Equation Editor. Neither of these equation editors is very useful for somebody who enters a lot of equations, so I use MathType (you may recall that Word 2003 admitted that the equation editor wasn't very good and suggested an upgrade to MathType.) I insert a MathType equation and then in Word I do References/Insert caption/Equation. If I insert the caption below the equation, then later when I do References/Cross reference/Equation 1, the cross reference is just "Equation 1" as it should be. If instead I put the caption to the right of the equation (which is where I want it and I suspect most people want it), then when I do References/Cross reference/Equation 1, I get as the cross reference the equation plus the caption, which is a real mess. I followed the suggestion about using a table, and it works OK, but it's awkward and in my opinion shouldn't be necessary--a bug. I have no idea what "linked styles" are, and I hope to God I never have to figure it out in order to do something that should be simple. I'm trying to get some work done here. Thanks again, Elbert -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* "Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote: Hi Elbert, In Word 2007 you can get to the version number through Word Options in the 'Resources' dialog (Alt, T, O, R) or (Alt, F, I, R) The old HelpAbout dialog is still available, but doesn't have a keyboard shortcut and the old Word 2003 one ( Alt, H, A) doesn't work in Word 2007. You can get to the old dialog through (a) the 'About' button in Resources (via the above route); (b) by using View=Macros=View Macros, selecting 'Word Commands' for 'Macros in:' at the bottom of the dialog and running the 'HelpAbout' command or (c) by adding a keyboard shortcut in Office Button=Word Options=Customize=Customize Keyboard and select All commands then 'HelpAbout' Which item are you referring to in this case as a 'bug'? Word 2007 has its own internal Equation Editor as well as the optional installation of the prior version Equation Editor. You can use 'linked styles' in Word to have the Equation caption and Equation on the same line, although it's usually cleaner to use the two column table approach Suzanne mentioned. ============ "Elbert" wrote in message ... I hope eventually Microsoft will fix this bug, which they have not done in the latest version of Word 2007. (I'd tell you exactly what version I have, but with the wonderful new user interface, I can't figure out how to look up what it is. Whatever became of help/about?) -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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Hi Bob,
Yes, it's much easier when it's a built-in feature of the Equation Editor (in this case, MathType). MS mentioned in their blog that being able to number and caption the equations was a feature that the Word 2007 equation editor had to leave on the drawing board for a future version ============= "Bob Mathews" wrote in message ... On 29-Jan-2008, Elbert wrote: Elbert, I've been following this thread, and this is the first time you've mentioned MathType. I answer questions about Equation Editor too, but Bob and others were doing a great job so I stayed out of it. I assumed you were using the legacy Equation Editor. If you're using MathType 6, you'll have a MathType tab on the Word 2007 Ribbon. In the Insert group of the MathType tab, simply click on "Right-numbered" (there's an option for Left-numbered too), and you get an equation as well as the next number in sequence. You can format the numbers however you want, and if you're using chapter/section numbers, you can insert a break at the appropriate spot so the numbering follows. Inserting a reference to a particular equation is just as easy, and all the numbers & references will re-number if you add or remove one. You're just going to way too much trouble. -- Bob Mathews Director of Training Design Science, Inc. -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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Bob,
Thanks for the help. I did not have a MathType ribbon. I re-installed MathType, and now I do. Who understands these things? When I select Right Numbered, MathType centers the equation and puts a number such as (1.2) at the right of the line. I often write chapters of manuals, and want to be consistent with the format used by those who write other chapters. Our organization's standard is to indent the equation 1/2" from the left, and number the equations on the right as "Equation 1" Equation 2" etc., without chapter or section numbers. (A document I write might be chapter 3 in one manual and chapter 7 in another manual, so we just dispensed with chapter/section numbers and number the equations beginning with 1 in each chapter.) Also, I've written hundreds of pages with equations aligned and numbered that way, and I'd like to be able to modify those documents with consistent alignment and numbering. You say "You can format the numbers however you want" but I can't figure out how to format them the way I need to. The MathType help system explains how to use the Format Equation Number Dialog (on the MathType menu, the help system says), but after an amusing half hour looking for them, I still can't find the menu or the dialog. Is there a different way to get to the dialog through Word 2007? Can you point me to some information that will help me align and number equations the way I need to? Thanks again for your help, Elbert "Bob Mathews" wrote: On 29-Jan-2008, Elbert wrote: I insert a MathType equation and then in Word I do References/ Insert caption/Equation. If I insert the caption below the equation, then later when I do References/Cross reference/Equation 1, the cross reference is just "Equation 1" as it should be. Elbert, I've been following this thread, and this is the first time you've mentioned MathType. I answer questions about Equation Editor too, but Bob and others were doing a great job so I stayed out of it. I assumed you were using the legacy Equation Editor. If you're using MathType 6, you'll have a MathType tab on the Word 2007 Ribbon. In the Insert group of the MathType tab, simply click on "Right-numbered" (there's an option for Left-numbered too), and you get an equation as well as the next number in sequence. You can format the numbers however you want, and if you're using chapter/section numbers, you can insert a break at the appropriate spot so the numbering follows. Inserting a reference to a particular equation is just as easy, and all the numbers & references will re-number if you add or remove one. You're just going to way too much trouble. -- Bob Mathews Director of Training Design Science, Inc. bobm at dessci.com http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor, TeXaide |
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Hi Bob,
Thanks for the help. If you have created custom toolbars (rather than customizing Word's built in toolbars) in a prior version if you place that template in Word 2007's Startup folder (or attach the template (Alt, T, I) in Word 2007, your toolbars should appear in an 'Add-In' tab... Mostly I had customized the built in toolbars, but this procedure (which I would never have figured out for myself) got me one custom toolbar that I had created. Your macros should likewise be available (View Macros=View Macros) and some may need to be tweaked for differences in Word 2007. On the View ribbon I clicked on the View Macros button, but I did not see my macros in the list. However, in the organizer I selected normal11.dot (my normal template for Word 2003) and I was able to move some macros to normal.dotm, including the one that aligns and captions MathType equations the way I want them! Can you tell me how to assign keyboard shortcuts to those macros? Shift-F1 used to invoke the equation macro, but now it reveals formatting. BTW, I couldn't figure out how to record the equation macro with Word 2007. With 2003, the macro was assigned to shift-F1. Shift-F1 would insert a two cell table, move the left edge of the table in 1/2", insert a caption with Equation # in the right cell, right justify the caption, move to the left cell, turn off all borders, do insert/object/MathType equation, then move the cursor to the line after the table. I'd hit shift-F1 and almost immediately I'd see the MathType window. I'd type my equation, and when I exited from MathType, I'd have my equation aligned where I wanted it and captioned, with the cursor on the next line so I could continue typing. With 2007, I finally figured out (again my intuition failed me) that the record macro feature is located on the view ribbon. So I tried to use it to record the same macro--the only way I could see to assign a keyboard shortcut to it, but I got stuck when I tried to move the caption into the right cell, and again when I tried to move the left edge of the table over by 1/2". Unless I'm missing something, the record macro feature is a lot less useful in 2007 than it was in 2003. Your suggestion to insert an aligned and captioned equation as a quick part works pretty well. Since I need to double click the empty equation object, and I can't see it when it's empty, I made an equation with the letter x in it. Now to insert an equation I have to click Insert, then quick object, then equation. Then I have to double click on the equation, delete the x, type the equation, exit from MathType, and move the cursor below the table. Not bad, but not quite as slick as my old shift-F1. Thanks again for the help, Elbert "Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote: Hi Elbert, The thread you came in is titled 'Equation Line Numbers' but I'm assuming that you're not looking to line number the equation elements but to tie captions to the Equations? But first, on finding your way around in Word 2007 g... If you have created custom toolbars (rather than customizing Word's built in toolbars) in a prior version if you place that template in Word 2007's Startup folder (or attach the template (Alt, T, I) in Word 2007, your toolbars should appear in an 'Add-In' tab in Word 2007 and you can also have them be attached to the Quick Access Toolbar. Your macros should likewise be available (View Macros=View Macros) and some may need to be tweaked for differences in Word 2007. It sort of depends on what they do g. If you use keyboard shortcuts in Word 2003, many of the same shortcuts continue to work in Word 2007. There's also interactive, printable and viewable 'cheat sheets' on 'where are they now' commands/button lists here. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx Okay, back on captioning equations, (much more Suzanne and others' strongpoints g) the two cell one row table can be setup to be fairly simple to reuse in Word 2007 In Word 2007 Insert=Table and create a two column one row table. If you want the captions to follow the equation, 1. Place your cursor in the table's left cell and use Insert=Equation to put an empty equation builder control in that cell (If you're using Mathtype or the older Word 3.0 Equation choice you can select either of those through Insert=Object=Object at this point) 2. Use Reference=Insert Caption to create a caption, then cut and paste that into the right hand cell. 3. Select the whole table by clicking on the the icon above the top left of the table when you hover over that corner then right click, choose Borders and Shading (or use Table Tools=Design=Borders) and set the table to have no lines. Make any other changes you want as far as table cell sizing, or centering, etc using the Table Tools tab and the Home formatting choices. 4. With the table still selected go to Insert=Quickparts and choose 'Save Selection to Quick Part Gallery...' to create a building block. 5. In the next dialog that comes up give the building block a name, change the Gallery to 'Equations', create a new category named 'Added Equations', type a description of what this is used for and in the Options choose 'Insert content in its own paragraph' and OK. Now when you use Insert=Equation, your tabled equation, complete with numbered caption is ready to choose. There is also a way to do it with using 'linked styles' in Word 2007, but this one's fairly long already, so that will be in a separate message ======== "Elbert" wrote in message ... Hi Bob, Thanks for the help. I guess I should have known intuitively that the version number is a resource. Sorry to be cranky, but I've wasted days trying to figure out how to do things with Word 2007 that I could do with 2003. e.g., I had carefully customized my toolbars for 2003 so I could be very productive. Gone. I had spent hours and hours developing macros that saved me a great deal of time. Gone. And I was sure I'd love the ribbons, but I don't. Which item are you referring to in this case as a 'bug'? Word 2007 has its own internal Equation Editor as well as the optional installation of the prior version Equation Editor. Neither of these equation editors is very useful for somebody who enters a lot of equations, so I use MathType (you may recall that Word 2003 admitted that the equation editor wasn't very good and suggested an upgrade to MathType.) I insert a MathType equation and then in Word I do References/Insert caption/Equation. If I insert the caption below the equation, then later when I do References/Cross reference/Equation 1, the cross reference is just "Equation 1" as it should be. If instead I put the caption to the right of the equation (which is where I want it and I suspect most people want it), then when I do References/Cross reference/Equation 1, I get as the cross reference the equation plus the caption, which is a real mess. I followed the suggestion about using a table, and it works OK, but it's awkward and in my opinion shouldn't be necessary--a bug. I have no idea what "linked styles" are, and I hope to God I never have to figure it out in order to do something that should be simple. I'm trying to get some work done here. Thanks again, Elbert -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* "Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote: Hi Elbert, In Word 2007 you can get to the version number through Word Options in the 'Resources' dialog (Alt, T, O, R) or (Alt, F, I, R) The old HelpAbout dialog is still available, but doesn't have a keyboard shortcut and the old Word 2003 one ( Alt, H, A) doesn't work in Word 2007. You can get to the old dialog through (a) the 'About' button in Resources (via the above route); (b) by using View=Macros=View Macros, selecting 'Word Commands' for 'Macros in:' at the bottom of the dialog and running the 'HelpAbout' command or (c) by adding a keyboard shortcut in Office Button=Word Options=Customize=Customize Keyboard and select All commands then 'HelpAbout' Which item are you referring to in this case as a 'bug'? Word 2007 has its own internal Equation Editor as well as the optional installation of the prior version Equation Editor. You can use 'linked styles' in Word to have the Equation caption and Equation on the same line, although it's usually cleaner to use the two column table approach Suzanne mentioned. ============ "Elbert" wrote in message ... I hope eventually Microsoft will fix this bug, which they have not done in the latest version of Word 2007. (I'd tell you exactly what version I have, but with the wonderful new user interface, I can't figure out how to look up what it is. Whatever became of help/about?) -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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Elbert,
I checked the MathType Help file, and I didn't find any reference to "menu" in the section for "Office 2007". You sure you're not looking in the "Office 2000, 2002, and 2003" section? If it's in the Office 2007 section, let me know the title of the page, and where it is in the directory structure (on the left), and I'll see that it gets fixed. To format the equation numbers, click on the downward-pointing triangle next to "Insert Number". (This is in the "Equation Numbers" section of the MathType tab on Word's Ribbon.) Select the "Format" command. To format the numbers the way you describe, in the Format Equation Numbers dialog, click the button next to "Advanced Format". Type this text in the "Format:" window: Equation #E1 If you're re-formatting a document that already exists, in the next section make sure "Whole document" is checked. You probably also want to select the option in the next section "Use format as default for new documents". Note that the equation numbers and references will be formatted identically. To have the equations all appear 1/2" from the left margin, with the equation number at the right margin, all you need to do is change the style specification for "MTDisplayEquation". Here's how to do that... 1. Click on the Home tab on the Word Ribbon. Click on the diagonal arrow at the bottom right corner of the Styles section. This will bring up the Styles task pane. 2. If the insertion point (i.e., cursor) was on a line containing a display equation, the Style named "MTDisplayEquation" will appear selected in the Styles task pane. If not, scroll until you find a style with that name. 3. Point to that style with the mouse, and a blue "V" will appear at the right edge. Click the V and select the "Modify" command. 4. In the lower left-hand corner of the Modify Style dialog is a button labeled "Format". Click it, then select "Tabs". 5. There should be 2 tabs there, probably a center-justified tab at 3" and a right-justified tab at 6". (Mine are at 3.25" and 6.5" respectively, because I've changed my Normal template to have 1" margins instead of the ridiculous 1.25" margins that are default.) 6. Select the first tab and click the Clear button at the bottom. In the "Tab stop position:" text area, type 0.5", choose Left Alignment, then click Set. 7. In the group of checkboxes and radio buttons at the bottom of the Modify Style dialog, click the radio button labeled "New documents based on this template". If you want MTDisplayEquation to appear in the Quick Style list, click that checkbox too. 8. Click OK, then click OK again. Click the X in the upper right-hand corner of the Styles task pane to close it. Now future equations in this document will be aligned one-half inch from the left margin, but... This is what I recommend next. Close out all open Word documents, and close Word. The last thing that will happen before Word closes is a "Microsoft Office Word" dialog will appear, saying that you've made changes to "Normal.dotm", and do you want to save the changes? If you don't click "Yes", your changes to MTDisplayEquation and to the Quick Style list will be lost. That's why I recommend closing Word now, even if you have to immediately re-open it. If you don't do it now, you may forget making changes to "Normal.dotm", and click No. -- Bob Mathews Director of Training Design Science, Inc. bobm at dessci.com http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor, TeXaide On 1-Feb-2008, wrote: Bob, Thanks for the help. I did not have a MathType ribbon. I re-installed MathType, and now I do. Who understands these things? When I select Right Numbered, MathType centers the equation and puts a number such as (1.2) at the right of the line. I often write chapters of manuals, and want to be consistent with the format used by those who write other chapters. Our organization's standard is to indent the equation 1/2" from the left, and number the equations on the right as "Equation 1" Equation 2" etc., without chapter or section numbers. (A document I write might be chapter 3 in one manual and chapter 7 in another manual, so we just dispensed with chapter/section numbers and number the equations beginning with 1 in each chapter.) Also, I've written hundreds of pages with equations aligned and numbered that way, and I'd like to be able to modify those documents with consistent alignment and numbering. You say "You can format the numbers however you want" but I can't figure out how to format them the way I need to. The MathType help system explains how to use the Format Equation Number Dialog (on the MathType menu, the help system says), but after an amusing half hour looking for them, I still can't find the menu or the dialog. Is there a different way to get to the dialog through Word 2007? Can you point me to some information that will help me align and number equations the way I need to? Thanks again for your help, Elbert "Bob Mathews" wrote: On 29-Jan-2008, Elbert wrote: I insert a MathType equation and then in Word I do References/ Insert caption/Equation. If I insert the caption below the equation, then later when I do References/Cross reference/ Equation 1, the cross reference is just "Equation 1" as it should be. Elbert, I've been following this thread, and this is the first time you've mentioned MathType. I answer questions about Equation Editor too, but Bob and others were doing a great job so I stayed out of it. I assumed you were using the legacy Equation Editor. If you're using MathType 6, you'll have a MathType tab on the Word 2007 Ribbon. In the Insert group of the MathType tab, simply click on "Right-numbered" (there's an option for Left-numbered too), and you get an equation as well as the next number in sequence. You can format the numbers however you want, and if you're using chapter/section numbers, you can insert a break at the appropriate spot so the numbering follows. Inserting a reference to a particular equation is just as easy, and all the numbers & references will re- number if you add or remove one. You're just going to way too much trouble. -- Bob Mathews |
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In the Word 2007 MathType ribbon, I clicked MathType help. I then searched for "format equation number". The third item in the selected topics was "Format equation number dialog" so I read that and it didn't help because I couldn't find the dialog. Also, if I go to contents/MathType with Microsoft Office/Office 2007/MathType's support for MS Word/Numbering equations, I see a page called "numbering equations." On that page there is a link to "format equation number dialog", my old nemisis. I finally went to contents/MathType with Microsoft Office/Office 2007/MathType's support for MS Word/MathType tab in MS Word/Equation numbers group. I gave that page a careful reading, and learned that if I go to the MathType tab, Equation numbers group, insert numbers dropdown list, there's an option to format that takes me to the format equation numbers dialog box. Finally! I selected advanced format and formatted the numbers as you told me to. Works as advertised. I also modified the MTdisplayEquation style as you suggested and insert right numbered equation now works the way I want it to. Thanks again for your help, Elbert "Bob Mathews" wrote: Elbert, I checked the MathType Help file, and I didn't find any reference to "menu" in the section for "Office 2007". You sure you're not looking in the "Office 2000, 2002, and 2003" section? If it's in the Office 2007 section, let me know the title of the page, and where it is in the directory structure (on the left), and I'll see that it gets fixed. To format the equation numbers, click on the downward-pointing triangle next to "Insert Number". (This is in the "Equation Numbers" section of the MathType tab on Word's Ribbon.) Select the "Format" command. To format the numbers the way you describe, in the Format Equation Numbers dialog, click the button next to "Advanced Format". Type this text in the "Format:" window: Equation #E1 If you're re-formatting a document that already exists, in the next section make sure "Whole document" is checked. You probably also want to select the option in the next section "Use format as default for new documents". Note that the equation numbers and references will be formatted identically. To have the equations all appear 1/2" from the left margin, with the equation number at the right margin, all you need to do is change the style specification for "MTDisplayEquation". Here's how to do that... 1. Click on the Home tab on the Word Ribbon. Click on the diagonal arrow at the bottom right corner of the Styles section. This will bring up the Styles task pane. 2. If the insertion point (i.e., cursor) was on a line containing a display equation, the Style named "MTDisplayEquation" will appear selected in the Styles task pane. If not, scroll until you find a style with that name. 3. Point to that style with the mouse, and a blue "V" will appear at the right edge. Click the V and select the "Modify" command. 4. In the lower left-hand corner of the Modify Style dialog is a button labeled "Format". Click it, then select "Tabs". 5. There should be 2 tabs there, probably a center-justified tab at 3" and a right-justified tab at 6". (Mine are at 3.25" and 6.5" respectively, because I've changed my Normal template to have 1" margins instead of the ridiculous 1.25" margins that are default.) 6. Select the first tab and click the Clear button at the bottom. In the "Tab stop position:" text area, type 0.5", choose Left Alignment, then click Set. 7. In the group of checkboxes and radio buttons at the bottom of the Modify Style dialog, click the radio button labeled "New documents based on this template". If you want MTDisplayEquation to appear in the Quick Style list, click that checkbox too. 8. Click OK, then click OK again. Click the X in the upper right-hand corner of the Styles task pane to close it. Now future equations in this document will be aligned one-half inch from the left margin, but... This is what I recommend next. Close out all open Word documents, and close Word. The last thing that will happen before Word closes is a "Microsoft Office Word" dialog will appear, saying that you've made changes to "Normal.dotm", and do you want to save the changes? If you don't click "Yes", your changes to MTDisplayEquation and to the Quick Style list will be lost. That's why I recommend closing Word now, even if you have to immediately re-open it. If you don't do it now, you may forget making changes to "Normal.dotm", and click No. -- Bob Mathews Director of Training Design Science, Inc. bobm at dessci.com http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor, TeXaide On 1-Feb-2008, wrote: Bob, Thanks for the help. I did not have a MathType ribbon. I re-installed MathType, and now I do. Who understands these things? When I select Right Numbered, MathType centers the equation and puts a number such as (1.2) at the right of the line. I often write chapters of manuals, and want to be consistent with the format used by those who write other chapters. Our organization's standard is to indent the equation 1/2" from the left, and number the equations on the right as "Equation 1" Equation 2" etc., without chapter or section numbers. (A document I write might be chapter 3 in one manual and chapter 7 in another manual, so we just dispensed with chapter/section numbers and number the equations beginning with 1 in each chapter.) Also, I've written hundreds of pages with equations aligned and numbered that way, and I'd like to be able to modify those documents with consistent alignment and numbering. You say "You can format the numbers however you want" but I can't figure out how to format them the way I need to. The MathType help system explains how to use the Format Equation Number Dialog (on the MathType menu, the help system says), but after an amusing half hour looking for them, I still can't find the menu or the dialog. Is there a different way to get to the dialog through Word 2007? Can you point me to some information that will help me align and number equations the way I need to? Thanks again for your help, Elbert "Bob Mathews" wrote: On 29-Jan-2008, Elbert wrote: I insert a MathType equation and then in Word I do References/ Insert caption/Equation. If I insert the caption below the equation, then later when I do References/Cross reference/ Equation 1, the cross reference is just "Equation 1" as it should be. Elbert, I've been following this thread, and this is the first time you've mentioned MathType. I answer questions about Equation Editor too, but Bob and others were doing a great job so I stayed out of it. I assumed you were using the legacy Equation Editor. If you're using MathType 6, you'll have a MathType tab on the Word 2007 Ribbon. In the Insert group of the MathType tab, simply click on "Right-numbered" (there's an option for Left-numbered too), and you get an equation as well as the next number in sequence. You can format the numbers however you want, and if you're using chapter/section numbers, you can insert a break at the appropriate spot so the numbering follows. Inserting a reference to a particular equation is just as easy, and all the numbers & references will re- number if you add or remove one. You're just going to way too much trouble. -- Bob Mathews |
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Elbert,
Thanks for the detailed feedback. When we wrote the Help file, we really did put a lot of thought and effort into it, but there's no substitute for someone like you giving us input on problems you've encountered in practice. We'll look at these sections to see how we can make them better. Glad it finally worked out for you. -- Bob Mathews Director of Training Design Science, Inc. bobm at dessci.com http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor, TeXaide On 1-Feb-2008, wrote: Bob, In the Word 2007 MathType ribbon, I clicked MathType help. I then searched for "format equation number". The third item in the selected topics was "Format equation number dialog" so I read that and it didn't help because I couldn't find the dialog. Also, if I go to contents/MathType with Microsoft Office/Office 2007/MathType's support for MS Word/Numbering equations, I see a page called "numbering equations." On that page there is a link to "format equation number dialog", my old nemisis. I finally went to contents/MathType with Microsoft Office/Office 2007/MathType's support for MS Word/MathType tab in MS Word/Equation numbers group. I gave that page a careful reading, and learned that if I go to the MathType tab, Equation numbers group, insert numbers dropdown list, there's an option to format that takes me to the format equation numbers dialog box. Finally! I selected advanced format and formatted the numbers as you told me to. Works as advertised. I also modified the MTdisplayEquation style as you suggested and insert right numbered equation now works the way I want it to. Thanks again for your help, Elbert |
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Bob,
Sorry--one more thing. I use different margin settings for different kinds of documents. So setting the right tab for the equation number to 6 will not work for all documents. Is there a way to get the equation number right aligned no matter what the margin settings? Thanks, Elbert "Bob Mathews" wrote: Elbert, I checked the MathType Help file, and I didn't find any reference to "menu" in the section for "Office 2007". You sure you're not looking in the "Office 2000, 2002, and 2003" section? If it's in the Office 2007 section, let me know the title of the page, and where it is in the directory structure (on the left), and I'll see that it gets fixed. To format the equation numbers, click on the downward-pointing triangle next to "Insert Number". (This is in the "Equation Numbers" section of the MathType tab on Word's Ribbon.) Select the "Format" command. To format the numbers the way you describe, in the Format Equation Numbers dialog, click the button next to "Advanced Format". Type this text in the "Format:" window: Equation #E1 If you're re-formatting a document that already exists, in the next section make sure "Whole document" is checked. You probably also want to select the option in the next section "Use format as default for new documents". Note that the equation numbers and references will be formatted identically. To have the equations all appear 1/2" from the left margin, with the equation number at the right margin, all you need to do is change the style specification for "MTDisplayEquation". Here's how to do that... 1. Click on the Home tab on the Word Ribbon. Click on the diagonal arrow at the bottom right corner of the Styles section. This will bring up the Styles task pane. 2. If the insertion point (i.e., cursor) was on a line containing a display equation, the Style named "MTDisplayEquation" will appear selected in the Styles task pane. If not, scroll until you find a style with that name. 3. Point to that style with the mouse, and a blue "V" will appear at the right edge. Click the V and select the "Modify" command. 4. In the lower left-hand corner of the Modify Style dialog is a button labeled "Format". Click it, then select "Tabs". 5. There should be 2 tabs there, probably a center-justified tab at 3" and a right-justified tab at 6". (Mine are at 3.25" and 6.5" respectively, because I've changed my Normal template to have 1" margins instead of the ridiculous 1.25" margins that are default.) 6. Select the first tab and click the Clear button at the bottom. In the "Tab stop position:" text area, type 0.5", choose Left Alignment, then click Set. 7. In the group of checkboxes and radio buttons at the bottom of the Modify Style dialog, click the radio button labeled "New documents based on this template". If you want MTDisplayEquation to appear in the Quick Style list, click that checkbox too. 8. Click OK, then click OK again. Click the X in the upper right-hand corner of the Styles task pane to close it. Now future equations in this document will be aligned one-half inch from the left margin, but... This is what I recommend next. Close out all open Word documents, and close Word. The last thing that will happen before Word closes is a "Microsoft Office Word" dialog will appear, saying that you've made changes to "Normal.dotm", and do you want to save the changes? If you don't click "Yes", your changes to MTDisplayEquation and to the Quick Style list will be lost. That's why I recommend closing Word now, even if you have to immediately re-open it. If you don't do it now, you may forget making changes to "Normal.dotm", and click No. -- Bob Mathews Director of Training Design Science, Inc. bobm at dessci.com http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor, TeXaide On 1-Feb-2008, wrote: Bob, Thanks for the help. I did not have a MathType ribbon. I re-installed MathType, and now I do. Who understands these things? When I select Right Numbered, MathType centers the equation and puts a number such as (1.2) at the right of the line. I often write chapters of manuals, and want to be consistent with the format used by those who write other chapters. Our organization's standard is to indent the equation 1/2" from the left, and number the equations on the right as "Equation 1" Equation 2" etc., without chapter or section numbers. (A document I write might be chapter 3 in one manual and chapter 7 in another manual, so we just dispensed with chapter/section numbers and number the equations beginning with 1 in each chapter.) Also, I've written hundreds of pages with equations aligned and numbered that way, and I'd like to be able to modify those documents with consistent alignment and numbering. You say "You can format the numbers however you want" but I can't figure out how to format them the way I need to. The MathType help system explains how to use the Format Equation Number Dialog (on the MathType menu, the help system says), but after an amusing half hour looking for them, I still can't find the menu or the dialog. Is there a different way to get to the dialog through Word 2007? Can you point me to some information that will help me align and number equations the way I need to? Thanks again for your help, Elbert "Bob Mathews" wrote: On 29-Jan-2008, Elbert wrote: I insert a MathType equation and then in Word I do References/ Insert caption/Equation. If I insert the caption below the equation, then later when I do References/Cross reference/ Equation 1, the cross reference is just "Equation 1" as it should be. Elbert, I've been following this thread, and this is the first time you've mentioned MathType. I answer questions about Equation Editor too, but Bob and others were doing a great job so I stayed out of it. I assumed you were using the legacy Equation Editor. If you're using MathType 6, you'll have a MathType tab on the Word 2007 Ribbon. In the Insert group of the MathType tab, simply click on "Right-numbered" (there's an option for Left-numbered too), and you get an equation as well as the next number in sequence. You can format the numbers however you want, and if you're using chapter/section numbers, you can insert a break at the appropriate spot so the numbering follows. Inserting a reference to a particular equation is just as easy, and all the numbers & references will re- number if you add or remove one. You're just going to way too much trouble. -- Bob Mathews |
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Hi Elbert,
To change/add keyboard shortcuts in Word 2007 to a macro you can use Office Files Button=Word Options=Customize=Keyboard Shortcuts (Alt, F, I, C, AltT) and choose the macros category, although you'll need to choose something other than a Shift+F1 for a Word shortcut. I don't know if perhaps MathType has its own facility for that as well. You can also assign keyboard shortcuts there to the gallery entry you made for the 2cell table from the 'AutoText' keyboard customization gallery. Before going to the keyboard shortcut area be sure to open the equations (or other) Building Block gallery once to have Word populate all of the dialogs. It doesn't do so on startup, so as not to delay the startup process. If you want your 2 cell table QuickPart to instead appear in the 'canned' Equations locate your saved item in Insert=Quickparts=Building Blocks Organizer cnoose 'Edit Properties' and switch the 'gallery' used from 'Quick Parts' to 'Equations'. The macro recorder is also available to be used from the Word status bar in Word 2007. Right click the status bar and tick mark that choice. I was able to record a macro that did, I think, pretty much what your description said, although to save some time, once you have stored a reusable table as a Building block (i.e. right sized, margins set, borders off, caption field inserted) you could record the macro to fetch that building block into the document then call the equation editor of choice (Insert=Object) or you could store an Equation Object in the building block so that when you insert the table you should be able to edit the equation object already prepped there. ============== "Elbert" wrote in message ... Hi Bob, Thanks for the help. If you have created custom toolbars (rather than customizing Word's built in toolbars) in a prior version if you place that template in Word 2007's Startup folder (or attach the template (Alt, T, I) in Word 2007, your toolbars should appear in an 'Add-In' tab... Mostly I had customized the built in toolbars, but this procedure (which I would never have figured out for myself) got me one custom toolbar that I had created. Your macros should likewise be available (View Macros=View Macros) and some may need to be tweaked for differences in Word 2007. On the View ribbon I clicked on the View Macros button, but I did not see my macros in the list. However, in the organizer I selected normal11.dot (my normal template for Word 2003) and I was able to move some macros to normal.dotm, including the one that aligns and captions MathType equations the way I want them! Can you tell me how to assign keyboard shortcuts to those macros? Shift-F1 used to invoke the equation macro, but now it reveals formatting. BTW, I couldn't figure out how to record the equation macro with Word 2007. With 2003, the macro was assigned to shift-F1. Shift-F1 would insert a two cell table, move the left edge of the table in 1/2", insert a caption with Equation # in the right cell, right justify the caption, move to the left cell, turn off all borders, do insert/object/MathType equation, then move the cursor to the line after the table. I'd hit shift-F1 and almost immediately I'd see the MathType window. I'd type my equation, and when I exited from MathType, I'd have my equation aligned where I wanted it and captioned, with the cursor on the next line so I could continue typing. With 2007, I finally figured out (again my intuition failed me) that the record macro feature is located on the view ribbon. So I tried to use it to record the same macro--the only way I could see to assign a keyboard shortcut to it, but I got stuck when I tried to move the caption into the right cell, and again when I tried to move the left edge of the table over by 1/2". Unless I'm missing something, the record macro feature is a lot less useful in 2007 than it was in 2003. Your suggestion to insert an aligned and captioned equation as a quick part works pretty well. Since I need to double click the empty equation object, and I can't see it when it's empty, I made an equation with the letter x in it. Now to insert an equation I have to click Insert, then quick object, then equation. Then I have to double click on the equation, delete the x, type the equation, exit from MathType, and move the cursor below the table. Not bad, but not quite as slick as my old shift-F1. Thanks again for the help, Elbert -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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Bob,
Sorry--one more thing. I use different margin settings for different kinds of documents. So setting the right tab for the equation number to 6 will not work for all documents. Is there a way to get the equation number right aligned no matter what the margin settings? Thanks, Elbert "Bob Mathews" wrote: Elbert, Thanks for the detailed feedback. When we wrote the Help file, we really did put a lot of thought and effort into it, but there's no substitute for someone like you giving us input on problems you've encountered in practice. We'll look at these sections to see how we can make them better. Glad it finally worked out for you. -- Bob Mathews Director of Training Design Science, Inc. bobm at dessci.com http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor, TeXaide On 1-Feb-2008, wrote: Bob, In the Word 2007 MathType ribbon, I clicked MathType help. I then searched for "format equation number". The third item in the selected topics was "Format equation number dialog" so I read that and it didn't help because I couldn't find the dialog. Also, if I go to contents/MathType with Microsoft Office/Office 2007/MathType's support for MS Word/Numbering equations, I see a page called "numbering equations." On that page there is a link to "format equation number dialog", my old nemisis. I finally went to contents/MathType with Microsoft Office/Office 2007/MathType's support for MS Word/MathType tab in MS Word/Equation numbers group. I gave that page a careful reading, and learned that if I go to the MathType tab, Equation numbers group, insert numbers dropdown list, there's an option to format that takes me to the format equation numbers dialog box. Finally! I selected advanced format and formatted the numbers as you told me to. Works as advertised. I also modified the MTdisplayEquation style as you suggested and insert right numbered equation now works the way I want it to. Thanks again for your help, Elbert |
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Thanks for helping again. I was able to record a macro that did, I think, pretty much what your description said You're a better man than I. When in record macro mode, I could not select the table to turn off borders, I could not grab the left edge of the table to move it in, and I could not grab the caption to drag it into the table cell. To change/add keyboard shortcuts in Word 2007 to a macro you can use Office Files Button=Word Options=Customize=Keyboard Shortcuts (Alt, F, I, C, AltT) and choose the macros category This works fine. Thanks. once you have stored a reusable table as a Building block (i.e. right sized, margins set, borders off, caption field inserted) you could record the macro to fetch that building block into the document then call the equation editor of choice Insert=Object) I couldn't quite get this to work. I could insert the building block, but then the cursor is positioned after the inserted table and with record macro on, I could not move the cursor into the table before opening MathType. or you could store an Equation Object in the building block so that when you insert the table you should be able to edit the equation object already prepped there. This is closest to what I want. I can't see where to click to open an empty MathType equation, so I stored an equation with just the letter x in it. So now I hit alt-shift-m to insert the table with the equation, double click on the x, delete the x and type the equation. Not as slick as the macro I had recorded pretty straightforwardly in Word 2003, but good enough, I guess. I still find macro recording disappointing in Word 2007 compared to Word 2003. One more question: I now have the macros and building blocks set up on my home computer and need to move them to my office computer. I guess that involves copying normal.dotm from one computer to the other. I also have several custom templates I've set up for myself, and I occasionally tweak one of them. Is there a way to store templates on my flash drive ahd have Word look for them there? I carry the flash drive back and forth, so I'd always have the latest version of templates no matter which computer I'm using. Thanks again for the help, Elbert "Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote: Hi Elbert, To change/add keyboard shortcuts in Word 2007 to a macro you can use Office Files Button=Word Options=Customize=Keyboard Shortcuts (Alt, F, I, C, AltT) and choose the macros category, although you'll need to choose something other than a Shift+F1 for a Word shortcut. I don't know if perhaps MathType has its own facility for that as well. You can also assign keyboard shortcuts there to the gallery entry you made for the 2cell table from the 'AutoText' keyboard customization gallery. Before going to the keyboard shortcut area be sure to open the equations (or other) Building Block gallery once to have Word populate all of the dialogs. It doesn't do so on startup, so as not to delay the startup process. If you want your 2 cell table QuickPart to instead appear in the 'canned' Equations locate your saved item in Insert=Quickparts=Building Blocks Organizer cnoose 'Edit Properties' and switch the 'gallery' used from 'Quick Parts' to 'Equations'. The macro recorder is also available to be used from the Word status bar in Word 2007. Right click the status bar and tick mark that choice. I was able to record a macro that did, I think, pretty much what your description said, although to save some time, once you have stored a reusable table as a Building block (i.e. right sized, margins set, borders off, caption field inserted) you could record the macro to fetch that building block into the document then call the equation editor of choice (Insert=Object) or you could store an Equation Object in the building block so that when you insert the table you should be able to edit the equation object already prepped there. ============== "Elbert" wrote in message ... Hi Bob, Thanks for the help. If you have created custom toolbars (rather than customizing Word's built in toolbars) in a prior version if you place that template in Word 2007's Startup folder (or attach the template (Alt, T, I) in Word 2007, your toolbars should appear in an 'Add-In' tab... Mostly I had customized the built in toolbars, but this procedure (which I would never have figured out for myself) got me one custom toolbar that I had created. Your macros should likewise be available (View Macros=View Macros) and some may need to be tweaked for differences in Word 2007. On the View ribbon I clicked on the View Macros button, but I did not see my macros in the list. However, in the organizer I selected normal11.dot (my normal template for Word 2003) and I was able to move some macros to normal.dotm, including the one that aligns and captions MathType equations the way I want them! Can you tell me how to assign keyboard shortcuts to those macros? Shift-F1 used to invoke the equation macro, but now it reveals formatting. BTW, I couldn't figure out how to record the equation macro with Word 2007. With 2003, the macro was assigned to shift-F1. Shift-F1 would insert a two cell table, move the left edge of the table in 1/2", insert a caption with Equation # in the right cell, right justify the caption, move to the left cell, turn off all borders, do insert/object/MathType equation, then move the cursor to the line after the table. I'd hit shift-F1 and almost immediately I'd see the MathType window. I'd type my equation, and when I exited from MathType, I'd have my equation aligned where I wanted it and captioned, with the cursor on the next line so I could continue typing. With 2007, I finally figured out (again my intuition failed me) that the record macro feature is located on the view ribbon. So I tried to use it to record the same macro--the only way I could see to assign a keyboard shortcut to it, but I got stuck when I tried to move the caption into the right cell, and again when I tried to move the left edge of the table over by 1/2". Unless I'm missing something, the record macro feature is a lot less useful in 2007 than it was in 2003. Your suggestion to insert an aligned and captioned equation as a quick part works pretty well. Since I need to double click the empty equation object, and I can't see it when it's empty, I made an equation with the letter x in it. Now to insert an equation I have to click Insert, then quick object, then equation. Then I have to double click on the equation, delete the x, type the equation, exit from MathType, and move the cursor below the table. Not bad, but not quite as slick as my old shift-F1. Thanks again for the help, Elbert -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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Not really. If Word allowed a tab setting of "100%", that would solve
the problem, but tab settings have to be in "ruler units". If your ruler is in inches, the tab has to be between -22" and 22". There is no requirement that a tab be set inside the margins. The only way that I know of to do what you want to do is to save a different template for each type of document. Let's say you have three document types with these desired equation and equation number settings: equation number 1" from left margin 6.5" centered on page 6.5" centered on page 6" Just set up MTDisplayEquation style with those tab settings, and save the document with a unique name and a dotm extension. Make sure the templates are saved to your templates folder, which by default is at the path C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Templates When you create a new document, don't click "New" on the Ribbon. Instead, click the Office button, then click New. Choose "My templates". Your custom templates will appear in the "New" dialog, so choose the one you want and click OK. If you already have an existing document and you want to apply a style from another document to it, the process is more involved, but it can be done. -- Bob Mathews Director of Training Design Science, Inc. bobm at dessci.com http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor, TeXaide On 5-Feb-2008, wrote: Bob, Sorry--one more thing. I use different margin settings for different kinds of documents. So setting the right tab for the equation number to 6 will not work for all documents. Is there a way to get the equation number right aligned no matter what the margin settings? Thanks, Elbert |
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I believe Word 2007 does have a "right margin tab stop" of some kind.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Bob Mathews" wrote in message ... Not really. If Word allowed a tab setting of "100%", that would solve the problem, but tab settings have to be in "ruler units". If your ruler is in inches, the tab has to be between -22" and 22". There is no requirement that a tab be set inside the margins. The only way that I know of to do what you want to do is to save a different template for each type of document. Let's say you have three document types with these desired equation and equation number settings: equation number 1" from left margin 6.5" centered on page 6.5" centered on page 6" Just set up MTDisplayEquation style with those tab settings, and save the document with a unique name and a dotm extension. Make sure the templates are saved to your templates folder, which by default is at the path C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Templates When you create a new document, don't click "New" on the Ribbon. Instead, click the Office button, then click New. Choose "My templates". Your custom templates will appear in the "New" dialog, so choose the one you want and click OK. If you already have an existing document and you want to apply a style from another document to it, the process is more involved, but it can be done. -- Bob Mathews Director of Training Design Science, Inc. bobm at dessci.com http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor, TeXaide On 5-Feb-2008, wrote: Bob, Sorry--one more thing. I use different margin settings for different kinds of documents. So setting the right tab for the equation number to 6 will not work for all documents. Is there a way to get the equation number right aligned no matter what the margin settings? Thanks, Elbert |
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Interesting. Before I made my previous post this morning, I looked in
the Help file, which of course wasn't very helpful. I didn't find anything about it there. I've since found this tip, where Allen Wyatt describes how to do it with a macro (works in Word 97 & later: http://wordtips.vitalnews.com/Pages/...ader_Tabs.html I didn't find anything showing how to set a tab at the right margin without a macro, so that if the margin changes, the tab changes with it. If that capability exists, I'd like to know how to do it, so if someone can point us to the instructions... -- Bob Mathews Director of Training Design Science, Inc. bobm at dessci.com http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor, TeXaide On 5-Feb-2008, Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: I believe Word 2007 does have a "right margin tab stop" of some kind. |
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Apparently it's called an "alignment tab." I found something at
http://www.zdnetasia.com/techguide/o...2036053,00.htm. There's a MS page at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...341341033.aspx. From casual reading, you might get the impression that they work only in headers and footer, as that's the context in which they're presented, but the latter page concludes: "The Alignment Tab dialog box is only accessible when viewing the Header & Footer Tools, but they can be utilized anywhere in your document by adding Insert Alignment Tab to your Quick Access Toolbar. To do so, right-click Insert Alignment Tab and then click Add To Quick Access Toolbar." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Bob Mathews" wrote in message ... Interesting. Before I made my previous post this morning, I looked in the Help file, which of course wasn't very helpful. I didn't find anything about it there. I've since found this tip, where Allen Wyatt describes how to do it with a macro (works in Word 97 & later: http://wordtips.vitalnews.com/Pages/...ader_Tabs.html I didn't find anything showing how to set a tab at the right margin without a macro, so that if the margin changes, the tab changes with it. If that capability exists, I'd like to know how to do it, so if someone can point us to the instructions... -- Bob Mathews Director of Training Design Science, Inc. bobm at dessci.com http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor, TeXaide On 5-Feb-2008, Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: I believe Word 2007 does have a "right margin tab stop" of some kind. |
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That's good info. Thanks Suzanne.
-- Bob Mathews Director of Training Design Science, Inc. bobm at dessci.com http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor, TeXaide On 5-Feb-2008, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Apparently it's called an "alignment tab." I found something at http://www.zdnetasia.com/techguide/o...2036053,00.htm. There's a MS page at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...341341033.aspx. From casual reading, you might get the impression that they work only in headers and footer, as that's the context in which they're presented, but the latter page concludes: "The Alignment Tab dialog box is only accessible when viewing the Header & Footer Tools, but they can be utilized anywhere in your document by adding Insert Alignment Tab to your Quick Access Toolbar. To do so, right-click Insert Alignment Tab and then click Add To Quick Access Toolbar." |
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You can go one step further for convenience. The Alignment Tab dialog box
always opens with the Center option chosen. If you want a Quick Access Toolbar button specifically for an alignment at the right margin, without needing to show the dialog, paste this macro into Normal.dotm and make a button to run it: Sub RightAlignTab() WordBasic.InsertAlignmentTab Alignment:=2, Relative:=0, Leader:=0 End Sub Variations: Alignment:=1 is Center and Alignment:=2 is Right. (Alignment:=0 is Left, but that's the same as having no tab at all. shrug) Relative:=0 is relative to Margin and Relative:=1 is relative to Indent. (Apparently the Center alignment relative to Indent ignores any right indent, and centers between the left indent and the right margin. The Right alignment, regardless of the Relative setting, always aligns on the right indent.) The Leader numbers in the macro are all 1 less than the leader numbers that appear in the dialog (0 = None, 1 = dots, etc.). -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Bob Mathews wrote: That's good info. Thanks Suzanne. Apparently it's called an "alignment tab." I found something at http://www.zdnetasia.com/techguide/o...2036053,00.htm. There's a MS page at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...341341033.aspx. From casual reading, you might get the impression that they work only in headers and footer, as that's the context in which they're presented, but the latter page concludes: "The Alignment Tab dialog box is only accessible when viewing the Header & Footer Tools, but they can be utilized anywhere in your document by adding Insert Alignment Tab to your Quick Access Toolbar. To do so, right-click Insert Alignment Tab and then click Add To Quick Access Toolbar." |
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