Equations in figures

[Johnd@UWA]

I am trying to get a consisent look to a technical document that contains
LOTS of equations, including equations in the figures. The equation editor
in Word2007 is great (much better than the old editor). The figures are a
little complicated so I use Visio for the figures. To get the equations into
the Visio document in a format that looks the same as the equations in the
body of the Word document, I insert a Word object into the Visio document -
all works fine in Visio untiol I copy the Visio document into the Word
document. Then half of the equations disappear - not all of them only about
half of them. If I open the pasted visio document, it has a place holder for
the word object which edits and shos the equation during editing of the Word
object, but dissapears again when the Word object is closed.

An obscure problem I know but any help appreciated.

John

 

[James W.]

Could it be that Word is reducing the workspace for the Visio drawing? It
sounds like if you activate the object it will open Visio and the drawing
includes everything. Is your page size and margins the same for both
applications? When you say that about half the equations are missing are they
random at different locations on the page or is the page being simply cut off?

James W.

 

[Johnd@UWA]

Hi James W.,

Here is the process I have used:

1) Draw figure in MS Visio 2007.
2) In an open a MS Word 2007 document, write out the equation. This
document is like a scratch pad and is only used to generate the equations to
be put into the figures.
3) Select and copy the equation.
4) Paste equation into Visio as a Word2007 object
5) Open the Word object and fix up the margins (when the equation is first
pasted, the width of the object is set by the margins of the original Word
document) - this may be were my problem is - I think equations in which I
have changed both the left and the right margins "disappear" but those that
only have the right margin adjusted are OK.
6) Close the Word object.
7) Copy everything in in the Viso document
8) Paste Special as a MS Visio Object into the main Word document


Some equations are visible some aren't - opening the MS Visio Object allows
me to select the “invisible†Word objects. Editing the “invisible†Word
objects shows that the equations are actually still there, and become visible
in the open Visio object when the imbedded Word object is closed, but
disappear again once the Visio object is closed.

Does this give any further clues?

Again, thanks for any help.

John

 

[James W.]

John you may want to verify what was mentioned about margins settings, do you
really need to adjust both margins? What happens if you paste the formulas
into notepad first then into the Visio shape. I saw some odd behavior when I
attempted to paste a formula directly into a Visio Shape from Word.

James W.

 

[Paul Herber]

I think John is talking about the Equation Editor, not shapesheet cell
equations.