User Guide

Chapter 5: Working with Other Applications
Last printed 8/20/2001 9:40 AM
Working with Microsoft Word
The combination of MathType and Microsoft Word is a powerful tool for
creating technical documents. The level of integration that Equation Editor users
are accustomed to is greatly enhanced by the MathType commands for Word,
which add a toolbar and menu containing useful commands to Word 97,
Word 2000 and Word 2002 (and future versions).
This section provides a brief overview of these commands, references to more
detailed information, a discussion of some Word formatting issues, and some
recommendations on moving Word documents between Windows and
Macintosh computers.
MathType’s Commands for Word
Removing the
Word Commands
If you want to remove
the commands, move
the template file out of
your Word Startup
folder.
Equation Editor
If you’ve added a button
to Word’s toolbar to
insert Equation Editor
equations, you’ll find
that this button now
launches MathType.
MathType Setup installs a Word template file into every Microsoft Office Startup
folder it detects. The file is called “MathType Commands 5 for Word. A copy of
this file is installed into the Office Support folder inside your MathType folder.
This folder also contains another template called WordCmds.dot, and a Read Me
file that contains additional information. The Word templates contains several
commands that greatly simplify the process of creating and editing documents
containing equations. The commands are available in a MathType menu that’s
added near the right-hand end of Word’s menu bar. Some of the more commonly
used commands are also available in a MathType toolbar that behaves exactly
like Word’s built-in toolbars.
The commands can be divided into the following categories:
• Inserting equations.
• Equation numbering.
• Controlling the appearance of equations in documents.
• Converting between equation formats.
• Exporting equations as individual graphics files.
• Generating Web pages.
You may notice a slight delay the first time you use the MathType commands
after starting Word. Word takes a couple of seconds to load all the commands,
but this delay only occurs the first time you use any command in a Word session.
Inserting Equations
The MathType menu in Word contains commands for inserting equations in four
different ways: inline, display, and left- and right-numbered display. Inline
equations are located within a line of text. Display equations occupy their own
paragraph and are typically centered, while numbered display equations also
include an equation number aligned with the left or right margin. We
recommend that you use one of these commands to insert equations instead of
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