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What is Equation Editor?
Who Uses Equation Editor With PowerPoint?
Equation Editor Links
Corresponding Versions
Add Equation Editor To The PowerPoint Toolbar
Animating Equations in PowerPoint
MathType - The Big Brother

What is Equation Editor?

Equation Editor is a small application that often acts as an embedded OLEobject to insert quotations in mainstream Microsoft Office applications likeWord, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher and Works. Although it is often calledMicrosoft Equation Editor, the actual product is a subset of a more capableequation editing application called MathType - both Equation Editor and MathTypeare created by Design Science, a company based in Long Beach, California,United States.

For many basic and intermediate uses, Equation Editor is all you need -it's more than capable if all you need to do is show or print equations inyour presentations or documents.

For as long as I can remember - or perhaps even before that, Equation Editorhas been an important component of Microsoft Office. While Equation Editorworks great in tandem with Word, Excel or Publisher - for reasons of clarityand relevance, we'll discuss using it with PowerPoint. More often than not,you can use it in the same way with other Microsoft Office (or any other)application. Incidentally, many more products including newer versions ofCorel WordPerfect Office ship with almost the same version of Equation Editor- so ideas on this page should help that user base as well.

Who Uses Equation Editor With PowerPoint?

If you asked that question, you are not alone. More often than not, thisstate of affairs is because there are many of us who are not aware of theexistence of this application - ironically because it is bundled free withthe world's best selling office suite. Just to make sure, I checked up threewell known PowerPoint books in my collection - not one listed it within itsindex. This is partly because Equation Editor is a specialized applicationthat seems suited for a semi-vertical audience. However, that's not entirelytrue, since Equation Editor itself can do a lot more than input Greek symbolsin mathematical and statistical formulae. Although Equation Editor is verywell suited for use by architects, mathematicians chemists and scientists,it can also be put to use by food technicians, decorators, recipe authors,hobbyists and students as also almost anyone else.

Equation Editor Links

Here's a list of links I've compiled for those of you who would liketo get started or improve their Equation Editor skills:

• Design Science, Inc. - thecreators of Equation Editor provide you with the best tips for the product available anywhere online. Theyalso have a great page on usingMathTypewith PowerPoint - most of the tips for MathType work with Equation Editor as well.
• The University of Waterloo has the mostcomprehensive description of Equation Editor to be found anywhere - including video clips you can download and view.

Corresponding Versions

Here is a list of corresponding versions of Equation Editor that shippedwith Microsoft Office. Thanks to Bob Mathews of Design Science for providingthis information:

Word 2.0 - Equation Editor 1.0
Office 4.3 - Equation Editor 2.0
Office 95 - Equation Editor 2.0
Office 97 - Equation Editor 3.0
Office 2000 - Equation Editor 3.01
Office XP (2002) - Equation Editor 3.1

Add Equation Editor To The PowerPoint Toolbar

This is excerpted from PowerPoint 2000 help - for some reason it doesnot appear in PowerPoint 2002 help.

1. Go to the View menu and choose Toolbars -> Customize.
2. Click the Commands tab, and then click 'Insert' under 'Categories'.
3. In the Commands box, click Equation Editor, and then drag it's instancefrom the Commands box to any location on any toolbar.

Animating Equations in PowerPoint

It is easy to animate equations in PowerPoint - although your equationswill no longer remain editable (although we'll incorporate ways to getaround that as well).

1. Create or edit an existing equation. Thereafter, select the entireequation within PowerPoint and duplicate it using either:
   Copy and paste, or
   Right click and drag and drop - then choose 'Copy' from the context menu.
2. Drag the duplicated equation off the slide. If we ever need the original source equation for editing, we can access an original non-destructedcopy.
3. Right click the equation which remains on the slide - choose Grouping -> Ungroup from the resultant flyout menu. You'll receive a warningabout converting the object - disregard the warning and agree to the conversion.
4. You'll find your equation is now a collection of objects - all ofwhich are shown selected. Do not deselect as of now. Rather, go to theSlide Show menu and choose the Custom Animation option. Choose a simpleanimation like Wipe Right within the Effects tab, in the 'Order andTiming' tab, choose 'Automatically 0:0 seconds after previous event.Click OK.
5. Play your slide - you might want to emphasise some element withinthe equation by using a different custom animation like Zoom or similar.More often than not, you'll also want to edit the animation sequenceof the individual equation elements.

MathType - The Big Brother

Although Equation Editor may be all you need, you may not know what youare missing. Design Science, the creators of Equation Editor also makea similar product with many more features - you might have guessed itsname - it is called MathType.

You can find a comparative listing of Equation Editor and MathType attheir site:

Once you've seen that, you might want to look at a detailed listing ofMathType features:

Design Science has a set of similar pages for their Macintosh versions.

Ultraiso for mac os x free download. The current version of MathType is version 5 - as expected, you'll findmore info and tutorials on the product at the Design Science web site.

You'll also find more information on MathType on this site - detailing its use with PowerPoint.