Creating Mathematics inside Microsoft Word

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Creating Mathematics inside Microsoft Word

Notes:
 On your home machine you probably will need to load your Microsoft office CD and do a custom install to install the Equation Editor. After installing you may need restart your microsoft word.

Insert Equation

To insert an equation, choose Insert, Object, Microsoft Equation 3.0, and click OK . One of 2 things will happen:

• A highlighted area will appear, along with equation editing palettes. This is known as in-place editing. It can be very difficult to see what is being entered, or
• A separate window will open, with the palettes on top. This is much easier for entering equations. This looks like the following.

Customize Toolbar

If you are entering many equations, you may find it convenient to have an "Insert Equation" button right on the toolbar. This can be done by:

1. right clicking on the tool bar (or opening the Tools menu) and choosing Customize
2. A window will open. Click on the Commands tab if it is not already selected.
3. Select Insert on the left and then Equation Editor on the right.
4. Click and drag the button beside Equation Editor (a square root symbol with an alpha in it) to the toolbar. From now on, clicking on that button will insert an equation.

Shortcuts Keyboard

General

1. Always add a full space before and after an equal sign, before and after a plus or minus sign, after a limit sign or integral sign, and before each limit on a definite integral. A full space is created inside an equation box by pressing  Ctrl+Shift+Space Bar.
2. Always add a half space between a coefficient and a variable and before and after the arrow sign in a limit. A half space is created by pressing Ctrl+Space Bar.
3. To insert a tab character in a slot, press CTRL+TAB.
4. To line up your equal signs you need to use the format/align option.
5. You can add text inside an Equation box by selecting Style - Text from the toolbar menu. 

Basic Scripts

Scripts	sample	Description
^	xn	power / exponent ( superscript )
_	m Log n	Logarithm ( subscript )
/	a/b	Fractions

Shortcuts Keyboard List

Notes: to press space where the code says, it is necessary to get Microsoft word to recognize certain parts before continuing.

Sections:
1. Common Hotkeys
2. Basic Math Equations
3. Greek letters and symbols
4. Scripts
5. Limits/logs/trig functions
6. Common Character Accents.

1. Common Hotkeys

Alt + =             open/close equation editor
ctrl+l              left align
ctrl+e              center align
ctrl+r              Right align
ctrl+j              justify
ctrl+b              bold
ctrl+u              underline
ctrl+i              italic
ctrl+s              save document
ctrl+o              open document
ctrl+c              copy
ctrl+x              cut
ctrl+v              paste
shift+arrow         select text. By letter or symbol
ctrl+shift+arrow    select text. by word or grouping
ctrl+shift+.        increase text size
ctrl+shift+,        decrease text size

The variables x and n can be replaced with words and full equations

Insert Equation Templates ( Shortcut Keyboards )

2. Basic Math equations

Exponents
x^n             xn
(x+x)^n         (x+x)n
x^(n+n)         x(n+n)
x^n+n           xn+n

Division
x/n            "x" divided by "n"
(x+x)/n        "x" plus "x" total divided by "n"
x/(n+n)        "x" divided by the sum of "n"+"n"
x/n+n           "x"divided by "n" total plus "n"

Integrals: be sure to type spaces as indicated
\int  x dx             boundless integral over the function x
\int _0^n x dx         integral with bounds zero to n over the function x
\int _0^(n+n) x dx     integral with bounds zero to n plus n all over the function of x
\iint x dx             double integral with no bounds
\iiint  x dx           triple intertal
(I am not sure if you can add bounds to all the integrals
 I would use multiple single integrals for this as shown below)

\int_0^2\pi \int _0^pi \int _0^r r^2 sin \phi dr d\phi d\theta
bounds from 0 to 2(pi), 0 to pi and 0 to r
(this is an integral for a sphere of radius r)

3. Greek letters and symbols commonly used in equations:

Shortcuts (press space to change to symbol)
\Alpha        A
\alpha        α
\Beta         B
\beta         β
\Delta        Δ
\delta        δ
\partial      ∂
\Gamma        Γ
\gamma        γ
\epsilon      ϵ    
\Epsilon      Ε
\varepsilon   ε
\eta          η
\Eta          H
\theta        θ
\Theta        Θ
\kappa        κ
\Kappa        K
\lambda       λ
\Lambda       Λ
\pi           π
\Pi           Π
\omega        ω
\Omega        Ω
\mu           μ
\Mu           M
\infty        infinity symbol

4. Scripts

X^n       Xn
X_n       Xn
(I am not sure how to get the ones for elements where the scripts come before)

Other Scripts / Keyword ( AutoCorrect ) Math


5. Limits/logs/trig:(type the equation as indicated, include the spaces as they are recognized by Microsoft Word.)

lim (x->0) x       limit from x to zero subscript for x
log_x n            logx n
sin x              sine function
sin^-1 x           inverse sine function       
cos x              cosine function
cos^-1 x           inverse cosine function
tan x              tangent function
tan^-1 x           inverse tangent function
sinh x             hyperbolic sine function
sinh^-1 x          inverse hyperbolic sine function
cosh x             hyperbolic cosine function