Equation Editor for Powerpoint

[Guest]

Does anyone know how to insert an equation into powerpoint 2007 in any colour
other than black? (The equation editor 3.0 provided with powerpoint 2007 is
vastly inferior to the one included in Word 2007 yet equations made in Word
2007 and then pasted over loose lots of their image quality. Can Microsoft
not place the Word 2007 equation editor in their version of powerpoint as
well??)

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[Bob Mathews]

Does anyone know how to insert an equation into powerpoint
2007 in any colour other than black? (The equation editor 3.0
provided with powerpoint 2007 is vastly inferior to the one
included in Word 2007 yet equations made in Word 2007
and then pasted over loose lots of their image quality. Can
Microsoft not place the Word 2007 equation editor in their
version of powerpoint as well??)

"Equation Editor 3.0" in Office 2007 is in reality version 3.1,
and is unchanged from Office 2003. You can use Equation Editor
3.1 in PowerPoint (PPT) 2007, but you can't change the color of
an equation. You're right about using the new equation authoring
tool in Word 2007 -- when you copy an equation and paste it into
PPT 2007, it pastes as a low-quality graphic. This equation tool
isn't directly available in PPT 2007.

If color is important to you, an option is to use MathType. You
can try it free for 30 days, with all features enabled. MathType
allows coloring part or all of an equation and inserting it
directly in PowerPoint without pasting from another application.
You can have multiple colors in an equation if you want. More
info & download at the link in my signature.

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[Tushar Mehta]

Maybe, this has to do with the graphics card and whether or not one is using
hardware acceleration but in any case I cannot reproduce this problem.
Pasting the equation from Word 2007 into PP2007 and *not* adjusting the size
works just fine.

To create a larger object in PP, resize the object in Word (by changing the
font size) and then pasting the equation into PP. But this is a standard
'trick' I've been using with Excel -> PP and Word -> PP for years.

With the above method, when projected I could not identify any difference in
visual quality between the PP slide and the Word document itself.

I tried several other methods and for reasons I don't understand enough none
of them yielded acceptable quality: Inserting the copied object as a
metafile (via Paste Special...), inserting a Word document in PP and
creating the equation in it, and finally pasting the copied Word equation as
a linked object. All of them had jagged edges.

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[Steve Rindsberg]

Maybe, this has to do with the graphics card and whether or not one is using
hardware acceleration but in any case I cannot reproduce this problem.
Pasting the equation from Word 2007 into PP2007 and *not* adjusting the size
works just fine.

Hm. When I try it, what pastes in PPT looks to be an screen image of the
equation as it was displayed in Word, but a bit fuzzier (as though it's been
heavily antialiased). In Word, it's clearly vector. And vectorly clear. ;-)

To create a larger object in PP, resize the object in Word (by changing the
font size) and then pasting the equation into PP. But this is a standard
'trick' I've been using with Excel -> PP and Word -> PP for years.

Increasing the font size should increase the size of the whole equation object,
right? That'd account for it looking better in PPT if you have to increase the
size there

The best result I've seen so far is:

- Add the equation in PPT (Insert, Object, Equation Editor)
- Add the equation normally
- Close equation editor
- With the equation selected, copy it to clipboard
- Ctrl + Alt + V to paste special (Echo, it worked!) and choose Enhanced
Metafile
- Ungroup the result twice
- Select and reformat bits as desired

Parts of the equation may move a bit when ungrouped, but everything remains as
vector text.