Tim, I agree with Suzanne's responses to your post. I work for the
company that makes Equation Editor and licenses it to Microsoft.
Either there's an important part of what's happening that you're
leaving out in your post, or there's something you don't understand
about using Equation Editor (perhaps both).
Equation Editor is designed to use EITHER by clicking Insert>Object OR
by dragging the icon to your toolbar. It operates exactly the same
either way you do it, so it doesn't matter which method you use.
I'm not sure what "sizing" issues you're talking about. To adjust the
size of an Equation Editor equation, with Equation Editor open, the
menus at the top of the Word window aren't Word menus anymore; they're
Equation Editor menus. Click on the one labeled "Size", and choose the
Define command. Set it for whatever size you want. It's bad practice
to re-size an equation by dragging the corner of an equation, so if
you're re-sizing them that way, I suggest doing it from the Size menu
instead.
Once you're finished creating your equation, do not cut (or copy) it
from Equation Editor and paste it into your Word document. You need to
exit Equation Editor, and the way you do that is to press the Esc key
if it's in "in-place editing" mode (identified by the equation looking
like it's in your sentence when you're editing it), or by clicking the
red X in the upper right corner if it's in "separate window" mode.
(Note that there's a red X to the upper right of the Equation Editor
toolbar too, so make sure you click the correct red X. Equation
Editor's red X is smaller than Word's red X. If you click the red X
and the Equation Editor toolbar goes away, but the hashed lines remain
around the equation, all you did was close the Equation Editor
toolbar. To get the toolbar back, either double-click an equation or
open Equation Editor again to create a new equation.)
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Bob Mathews
Director of Training
Design Science, Inc.
bobm at dessci.com
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