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These are all in Word 2007 Beta 2
Here are some bugs and annoyances I've encountered with the equation editor
while typing up a couple of small math assignments.
1) (Bug) Write a sentence in "normal" style that includes an inline equation
in it. Select the sentence and click Heading 1 (or 2 or whatever) at the top
to change it to a heading. The heading style is bold, but the text in the
equation itself doesn't show as bold. Save the document, and close/reopen it
in Word. You'll find that the equation was actually converted to bold text
but just didn't show.
2) (Bug) Create a new equation that contains a double-struck character
(U+2115, U+211D for example). Easy to repeat by creating this in an equation:
"{x_n}_(n\in N)" where N is entered as "2115"+Alt+X. Save the document, and
close/reopen the document in Word. The double-struck N has been converted to
an regular N. Select the character, and re-enter it as "2115"+Alt+X. From now
on, that character will stay double-struck, but each time a double-struck is
used in a new equation you have to save/close/reopen/correct the character.
3) (Bug) Sometimes Word hangs after I hit Alt+= and start typing an
equation. It didn't do it during the first two documents I wrote, but it's
done it ~15 times on the third which was only 3 pages. I sent error reports
after these errors today. The freezes occur either right after I hit Alt+=,
or after I type the first character of the equation.
4) (Bug) Sometimes Display mode (centered block) equations will appear at a
position like they were indented about one tab from the left. If you hover
over them, you don't see the normal outline of an equation object. Hover over
the center where they should be displayed and you'll see the outlines in the
proper places?? The equations are not actually to the left, they just appear
to be there. Closing and reopening Word seems to correct this display error.
5) (Bug) Enter several equations, 1 per line, in Display mode (not inline).
Position this block of equations so some of the equations fall on the end of
one page and some of the equations fall at the top of the next. While this
situation is present, a cursor will not appear while attempting to edit
equations that are at the end of the first page of the split.
6) (Bug?) Inline equations word-wrap inside the equation. It seems that the
entire inline equation should move to the next line if it doesn't fit on the
current line. I have to manually put a Shift+Enter before an equation that is
wrapping in the middle to fix the problem.
7) (Bug/Annoyance) Arrow keys are extremely clumsy to use in/around
equations. Sometimes I'll hit an arrow key that would place me in or move me
within an equation, and the cursor will jump somewhere else in the document,
sometimes not even on the same page. This seems random but I've seen it
several times in creating these small documents.
8) (Bug) You cannot drag and drop a block of selected text that includes an
equation.
9) (Bug) Copy/paste of a sub-part of an inline equation in a block of
Heading 1 style to include as a part of an equation in normal text can lead
to weird cases of text in the normal style equation taking on the color of
the Heading 1 style? I only saw this once, but I avoided copy/paste between
styles after that because I couldn't fix it without deleting/remaking the
equation in the normal block.
10) (Recommend) The linear mode has a markup similar to but notably
different from LaTeX. Is there any way to have it (possibly optionally) parse
proper LaTeX markup? This seems like an obvious one - how can you expect to
lure users who went through the trouble of learning LaTeX by offering a
"plus" (pretty print editing, plus the rest of Word features) at the expense
of re-learning it all?
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Here are some bugs and annoyances I've encountered with the equation editor
while typing up a couple of small math assignments.
1) (Bug) Write a sentence in "normal" style that includes an inline equation
in it. Select the sentence and click Heading 1 (or 2 or whatever) at the top
to change it to a heading. The heading style is bold, but the text in the
equation itself doesn't show as bold. Save the document, and close/reopen it
in Word. You'll find that the equation was actually converted to bold text
but just didn't show.
2) (Bug) Create a new equation that contains a double-struck character
(U+2115, U+211D for example). Easy to repeat by creating this in an equation:
"{x_n}_(n\in N)" where N is entered as "2115"+Alt+X. Save the document, and
close/reopen the document in Word. The double-struck N has been converted to
an regular N. Select the character, and re-enter it as "2115"+Alt+X. From now
on, that character will stay double-struck, but each time a double-struck is
used in a new equation you have to save/close/reopen/correct the character.
3) (Bug) Sometimes Word hangs after I hit Alt+= and start typing an
equation. It didn't do it during the first two documents I wrote, but it's
done it ~15 times on the third which was only 3 pages. I sent error reports
after these errors today. The freezes occur either right after I hit Alt+=,
or after I type the first character of the equation.
4) (Bug) Sometimes Display mode (centered block) equations will appear at a
position like they were indented about one tab from the left. If you hover
over them, you don't see the normal outline of an equation object. Hover over
the center where they should be displayed and you'll see the outlines in the
proper places?? The equations are not actually to the left, they just appear
to be there. Closing and reopening Word seems to correct this display error.
5) (Bug) Enter several equations, 1 per line, in Display mode (not inline).
Position this block of equations so some of the equations fall on the end of
one page and some of the equations fall at the top of the next. While this
situation is present, a cursor will not appear while attempting to edit
equations that are at the end of the first page of the split.
6) (Bug?) Inline equations word-wrap inside the equation. It seems that the
entire inline equation should move to the next line if it doesn't fit on the
current line. I have to manually put a Shift+Enter before an equation that is
wrapping in the middle to fix the problem.
7) (Bug/Annoyance) Arrow keys are extremely clumsy to use in/around
equations. Sometimes I'll hit an arrow key that would place me in or move me
within an equation, and the cursor will jump somewhere else in the document,
sometimes not even on the same page. This seems random but I've seen it
several times in creating these small documents.
8) (Bug) You cannot drag and drop a block of selected text that includes an
equation.
9) (Bug) Copy/paste of a sub-part of an inline equation in a block of
Heading 1 style to include as a part of an equation in normal text can lead
to weird cases of text in the normal style equation taking on the color of
the Heading 1 style? I only saw this once, but I avoided copy/paste between
styles after that because I couldn't fix it without deleting/remaking the
equation in the normal block.
10) (Recommend) The linear mode has a markup similar to but notably
different from LaTeX. Is there any way to have it (possibly optionally) parse
proper LaTeX markup? This seems like an obvious one - how can you expect to
lure users who went through the trouble of learning LaTeX by offering a
"plus" (pretty print editing, plus the rest of Word features) at the expense
of re-learning it all?
----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...0&dg=microsoft.public.word.application.errors