Introduction To The Microsoft Equation Editor
Introduction To The Microsoft Equation Editor
Editor
2. Select the arrow directly below Equation; this will open a drop-down
menu.
3. Choose a preset equation; a box with your equation will appear on the
screen.
1. Use the tools at the top of your screen to create your equation
1. Open the context menu of the equation box (along the right side of the
box)
2. Select Save as New Equation to save this equation for further use.
2. The equation editor can also interpret a lot, but not all, LaTeX syntax.
Frequently, the use of curly brackets are replaced with parentheses in
the MS Word Equation Editor. For example, to write a capital Sigma
with subscript “n=1” to superscript infinity, the MS Word Equation
Editor syntax would be: \Sigma_(n=1)^\infty
For situations like these, you will need to either provide students with
how their screen reader reads the equation and how they should
interpret it, or you must provide an alternative format such as HTML.