Mathematical Equations in PowerPoint 2007 Beta

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Jim @ GT - 07 Jul 2006 14:20 GMT

I use Pwer Point for Science Lectures. When I installed Office 2007, all the
mathematical equations I made with Microsfft Equation 3.0 are cropped and
compressed. It appears to be a font problem. Word 2007 has a great equation
editor. This makes Office 2007 a non-starter for me. Any suggestions.

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Echo S - 07 Jul 2006 16:31 GMT

>I use Pwer Point for Science Lectures. When I installed Office 2007, all
>the
> mathematical equations I made with Microsfft Equation 3.0 are cropped and
> compressed. It appears to be a font problem. Word 2007 has a great
> equation
> editor. This makes Office 2007 a non-starter for me. Any suggestions.

I'm sure they're working on it still.

Can you copy the equations from Word to PPT for now?

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Jim @ GT - 07 Jul 2006 16:51 GMT

I can, but it's a lot of work to redo all of my lecture slides. Sinde then I
found out that if a save it as a pptx fiel and reopen and change the fonts in
Equation 3.0 to Cambria Math it looks OK except that subscripts are a line
and half too "low".

> >I use Pwer Point for Science Lectures. When I installed Office 2007, all
> >the
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> Can you copy the equations from Word to PPT for now?

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Patrick Schmid - 07 Jul 2006 21:26 GMT

MS is aware of the issue and working on it.

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> I can, but it's a lot of work to redo all of my lecture slides. Sinde then I
> found out that if a save it as a pptx fiel and reopen and change the fonts in
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> > Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
> > PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com

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Steve Rindsberg - 07 Jul 2006 17:40 GMT

> I use Pwer Point for Science Lectures. When I installed Office 2007, all the
> mathematical equations I made with Microsfft Equation 3.0 are cropped and
> compressed. It appears to be a font problem. Word 2007 has a great equation
> editor. This makes Office 2007 a non-starter for me. Any suggestions.

Uninstall the 2007 beta preview ("beta", meaning "Not ready for release yet.
Lots of bugs.")

Go back to the released version you had before until 2007 is released.

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Mayank - 10 Aug 2006 18:32 GMT

Steve,
This is down right rude, if you don’t have a solution, you don’t have to
necessarily reply to a Post.
Telling that what BETA means and that we should uninstall the test version
is NOT a solution.
We know that this is a “BETA” version and the reason that we all are
pointing these bugs is that hopefully they would be patched up on 2007.
Also if there are temporary fixes that would also help people like me, who
would other wise have to redo all the equations.
So please all wise quips should be kept to self.
-Mayank

> > I use Pwer Point for Science Lectures. When I installed Office 2007, all the
> > mathematical equations I made with Microsfft Equation 3.0 are cropped and
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Echo S - 10 Aug 2006 21:14 GMT

I know Steve to be a lot of things, but rude certainly isn't one of them.
You'd be surprised at how many people who post about beta problems really
don't understand the meaning of beta.

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> Steve,
> This is down right rude, if you don't have a solution, you don't have to
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Patrick Schmid - 10 Aug 2006 21:15 GMT

Mayank,

Steve told you the ONLY solution for this problem. There simply is no
workaround. People have tried changing the font to Cambria Math, but
that works pretty badly.
There simply is no workaround in PPT 2007. The only way to edit those
equations is to use an earlier, released version of PPT.
This is a bug in PPT 2007 Beta 2 and has been one since the first beta
version. Microsoft is working on fixing it, but we don't know if it will
be fixed in the next beta version or not.
So, whether you like it or not, this is a problem of the beta and you
should use a non-beta version of PPT for those equations.
And I also think an apology to Steve is in order, as he did tell you
exactly what the solution to the problem is.

Patrick Schmid
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> Steve,
> This is down right rude, if you don't have a solution, you don't have to
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> > PPTools: www.pptools.com
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Mayank - 11 Aug 2006 04:06 GMT

Assuming that the other person is naïve is certainly not a way to address a
problem.
A lot of us, who are not expert programmers and don’t belong to the clique
of Microsoft developers, have to turn to these forums for help. If the tone
of the author was not condescending, then perhaps I was a little overboard in
using the “rude” word.

But back to the actual question: Wow, only un-installation is the solution!!
Thank you,
-mayank
ps: no hard feelings

> Mayank,
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Patrick Schmid - 11 Aug 2006 04:22 GMT

Yes, sorry there is no better solution. I run PPT 2003 and 2007 in a
side-by-side install on the same computer and revert to 2003 when there
are issues with 2007. If you want to do something similar, you have to
first install 2003, then 2007. Never ever touch the 2003 setup while
2007 is installed.

Patrick Schmid
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http://pschmid.net

> Assuming that the other person is naïve is certainly not a way to address a
> problem.
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