Equation editor: Switching All-Professional to/from All-Linear Disaster

[Albert Baker]

I have countless hours invested in a paper laden with equations. At one point a particular equation toward the end of the paper was not converting correctly to All-Professional. The initial problem was underscore characters were not converting the following character to subscripts. At one point I tried to convert to Linear-All. MOST OF THE EQUATIONS IN THE ENTIRE PAPER WERE CONVERTED TO LINEAR AND NOW WHEN I TRY TO MAKE A CONVERSION IN ANY OF THESE EQUATIONS WORD 365 CRASHES. Has anyone experienced this problem? Do I have to re-enter every damned equation? Re-entry will take me several days.

 

[Albert Baker]

A follow up. I’m rebuilding the paper. I have 2 separate equations. When I covert the second to the last equation to Professional-All ... . Whoops.I should use Professional vs Professional-All to hold the conversion to the current equation. However, my prior use of Professional-All should not have broken most of equations in my paper.

 

[Albert Baker]

I am sure I’ve encountered one bug. As I build an equation with subscripts I’ve been checking just a portion of the equation by selecting Professional. When I then continue to enter the equation and, if there are subscripts in this latter part, those subscripts are stuck at “_”. Once the equation is in this broken mode no amount of fiddling resolves the problem.

 

[Albert Baker]

A solution is to avoid “_” to denote subscripts altogether. Use the script tool from the tool bar. That was a tortuous route - but maybe this might save someone the same pain.