PC Equation obects not displaying in Powerpoint and Word

[Aidan Stanger]

I'm using the student edition of Office on a 15" (titanium) powerbook
running MacOS 10.4 and I'm having trouble viewing Powerpoint and Word
files (created on a Windoze PC). It does not display Equation objects.
Although there is a workaround (double clicking these objects to open
them in Equation and then closing Equation) it is not practical for the
hundreds of equations the files contain!

Powerpoint is also failing to display some pictures. There doesn't
appear to be a workaround for this, but it's not such a big problem as
the vast majority of pictures display OK.

Does anyone know of a fix for these problems?

 

[Bob Mathews]

I'm using the student edition of Office on a 15" (titanium)
powerbook running MacOS 10.4 and I'm having trouble
viewing Powerpoint and Word files (created on a Windoze
PC). It does not display Equation objects. Although there
is a workaround (double clicking these objects to open
them in Equation and then closing Equation) it is not
practical for the hundreds of equations the files contain!

Practical or not, it's the only way to do it in PowerPoint. It's also
the only way to do it in Word unless you download the evaluation of
MathType (available at the link in my signature). Once you install
MathType, there will be a MathType menu in Word. One of the items in
that menu is "Convert equations". Click the radio button that says you
want to convert to MathType equations. When you click OK, all the
equations will be converted to the Macintosh graphic format. Note
they'll also be converted to MathType objects, and will no longer be
readable by Equation Editor. (After the 30-day evaluation period of
MathType, it will remain fully functional, but many features will
become disabled. The "Convert equations" feature is one of the
features that is disabled after the evaluation period.)

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