Loosing Microsoft Equations

[martyngilbert]

A plea for help!
I'm using WORD 2008 on a Mac running Leopard 10.5.2.

I have a 160 page document that has lots of Microsoft Equation Editor equations in it. After a significant editing session (with auto-backup switched on) they have all been trashed. They are all now just low-resolution pictures. I can't even visit them to 'convert' them back to equations. All knowledge of them being equations appears to be lost.

There is also significant memory leakage. After two hours of work, it claims it can't save .

All help gratefully received!

Martyn

 

[John McGhie]

Well, I don't think we can be of much "help", sadly.

The memory leak will slow down a bit if you disable Show Project Gallery at
startup, if you switch off WYSIWYG font menus, and if you close the progress
window in Entourage.

The equation bug is just that, a bug. There's a Service Pack due out on
March 11th, which hopefully will fix it. In the meantime, try to ignore it:
the equations should burst back into life with the fix.

Get into the habit of Quitting, rather than minimising, applications when
you are not using them.

If you are suffering slow start-up: it's a conflict with OS 10.5.2 and we're
waiting for a fix from Apple for that one.

Not much good news, I am afraid.

Hope this helps

A plea for help!
I'm using WORD 2008 on a Mac running Leopard 10.5.2.

I have a 160 page document that has lots of Microsoft Equation Editor
equations in it. After a significant editing session (with auto-backup
switched on) they have all been trashed. They are all now just low-resolution
pictures. I can't even visit them to 'convert' them back to equations. All
knowledge of them being equations appears to be lost.

There is also significant memory leakage. After two hours of work, it claims
it can't save .

All help gratefully received!

Martyn

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[Matt Centurión [MSFT]]

Hi Martyn,

Sorry to hear about your document issue. Do you still have a copy of the
document you can send us to look into it? Do you have a copy of the
document that had some of these equations prior to them being "trashed"?

If so please send it to:
matt.centurion AT microsoft.com

We'll try to get to the bottom of it.

Matt
MacOffice Testing
Microsoft


Date: 3/3/08 5:16 AM / From: "(e-mail address removed)"

 

[EAK]

When I close a Word-document containing equations and open it again, all the equations are low-resolution images of the actual equations (even if I print it). This is an extremely annoying bug. When will this be fixed?

Thanks!

 

[martyngilbert]

The March 11th update didn't fix it. WORD has lost me a good couple of months on this project and despite the learning curve I have now installed TeX and have switched over to it, using TexShow for editing and the GWTeX distribution for typesetting. It's not for the weak-hearted but my mathematics and everything else is typeset perfectly, every time.
BTW, I did supply Matt with the documents he requested earlier in this thread.

I would much have preferred Word 2008 actually worked in these ways rather than the effort having been spent on the somewhat cosmetic document layouts, pretty though they are.

 

[John McGhie]

"Soon" is the answer. We cannot be more precise than that. The fix is
currently in testing. It will be released as soon as it passes.

When I close a Word-document containing equations and open it again, all the
equations are low-resolution images of the actual equations (even if I print
it). This is an extremely annoying bug. When will this be fixed?

Thanks!

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[John McGhie]

See my earlier answer: The fix is currently in testing (thanks to your
samples) and will be released as soon as it passes.

The March 11th update didn't fix it. WORD has lost me a good couple of months
on this project and despite the learning curve I have now installed TeX and
have switched over to it, using TexShow for editing and the GWTeX distribution
for typesetting. It's not for the weak-hearted but my mathematics and
everything else is typeset perfectly, every time.
BTW, I did supply Matt with the documents he requested earlier in this thread.

I would much have preferred Word 2008 actually worked in these ways rather
than the effort having been spent on the somewhat cosmetic document layouts,
pretty though they are.

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Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Sydney, Australia. mailto:[email protected]