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Is it possible to read these Word equations on a Mac?
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One of my courses has posted solutions in Microsoft Word format with embedded equations which Office X can't seem to be able to read. Is there any way to read these on a Mac? Or do I need to convert the files using Office on a PC to something like PDF in order to use them?
The files are here: http://bigelow.pageout.net/page.dyn/...ourse_id=89933
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Living, working, and freezing in the Canadian north.
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Hmm, not sure...however, I think I remember seeing an "Equation Editor" or something in the Office v. X Value pack section....I remember reading that Excel needs that as well for some functions.
Sorry, wish I knew more...
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yep, it's probably an extra you need to install from the Office CD itself.
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If Word doesn't display the formulas at all, just download NeoOffice/J from
http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/en/
It's slow, but it works great and reads Word files (including the ones from your website). You don't need X11 or something, just Mac OS X Jaguar or Panther.
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I just tried to read a doc from that link. I could not read the embedded equations in Word either before or after installing the equation editor.
NeoOfficeJ does open up the doc and can see the "missing equations". (And yes it is slow on a DP 1.25 with 2GB RAM...nice effort ...should be better when it's "done"  )
I'll try to open it on my Windows machine at work later on
Strange.
(Last edited by milhouse; Nov 7, 2003 at 06:41 AM.
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Word Mac just does not seem to like them very much. In any case, I'm in communication with the professor right now about converting the documents to PDF, so hopefully the problem won't last much longer.
Thanks for your help!
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Word for Windows XP opens it fine.
Looks like a bug in M$'s program if one platform of Word can't see what was created on another.
First time I've ever seen that.
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Originally posted by milhouse:
Word for Windows XP opens it fine.
Looks like a bug in M$'s program if one platform of Word can't see what was created on another.
First time I've ever seen that.
Hardly the first time, I've had problems with Word on PC to PC, even.
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My lab partner and I have been exchanging report revisions all semester. We haven't noticed a general problem with Equation Editor, but we have seen an incompatibility with certain Greek letters.
Maybe it happens when the Greek letter is not available in the base character set the document is using. (But perhaps not - our latest document had problems with deltas and lambdas. Deltas are available in the font being used but not lambdas.)
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Originally posted by milhouse:
Word for Windows XP opens it fine.
Looks like a bug in M$'s program if one platform of Word can't see what was created on another.
First time I've ever seen that.
MS Word bug #21312 
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