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Math and/or Finance Math in Word?
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I just got into grad school (yeah yeah, I know... sometimes you just have to be careful about what you wish for)... and I need to submit a lot of papers in Word documents.
However, I need to use a lot of math and finance math in these papers and they want me to put them in Word! Does anyone know of an add-on or any application that will allow me to do this painlessly?
I don't want to see myself using Insert -> Symbol, or Insert -> Object -> Equation Editor for these long years in grad school! It would drive me nuts!
ANY HELP WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!
Oh, and long time MAC user. (I know that sentence alone will generate a lot of replies! Hahahaha!)
Again, thanks in advance!
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Hmmm, use EquationEditor and deal with the PDFs being rasterized nastily in Word?
Gosh, they won't just accept a PDF? That's seriously primitive.
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Maybe I am missing something. What's wrong with using Microsoft's built in equation editor? From my recollection, that's what almost everyone in school uses.
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One reason that I used to use WordPerfect was for the equation functionality. That might be an alternative you can go with -- it runs in Classic, and is free if you look around. About the same as Word's equation editor, though - it could be better.
Equation Editor is the accepted standard for most finance journals. MathType is used a lot as well, if you're going to use Word. Most journals won't accept Macintosh-created documents, either, but the *.doc format fixes most of that.
Lots of folks use LaTEX to do papers, mainly because of the symbol availability, but I'm not sure it's caught on well enough in the finance area yet.
I'm interested to hear what folks put in on this, because I need to find a reliable method for doing this too. Equation Editor is so cludgy.
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He can be fixed -- you can't.
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Originally Posted by Mithras
Hmmm, use EquationEditor and deal with the PDFs being rasterized nastily in Word?
Gosh, they won't just accept a PDF? That's seriously primitive.
That's exactly how I feel about Equation Editor and that's how I've been using it thus far, but they are insistent in .doc formats!
I'll ask about the .PDF's again... worth a try at least! Thanks for the response!
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Originally Posted by itai195
Maybe I am missing something. What's wrong with using Microsoft's built in equation editor? From my recollection, that's what almost everyone in school uses.
It's inefficient, annoying and really clunky. I need to write, at times, massive amounts of this stuff in Word and I just wanted to know if there is something out there that just makes things easier...
I'll live with Equation Editor if there's nothing else, but given the resourcefulness of this community, I thought there would definitely be something I've missed so far!
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Thanks!
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Originally Posted by finboy
One reason that I used to use WordPerfect was for the equation functionality. That might be an alternative you can go with -- it runs in Classic, and is free if you look around. About the same as Word's equation editor, though - it could be better.
Equation Editor is the accepted standard for most finance journals. MathType is used a lot as well, if you're going to use Word. Most journals won't accept Macintosh-created documents, either, but the *.doc format fixes most of that.
Lots of folks use LaTEX to do papers, mainly because of the symbol availability, but I'm not sure it's caught on well enough in the finance area yet.
I'm interested to hear what folks put in on this, because I need to find a reliable method for doing this too. Equation Editor is so cludgy.
finboy, thanks!
I've just looked at MathType from Design Science, they look to have some decent products... have you used any of their applications? I want to know usability before I fork out the money for it... but at least it looks promising!
And yeah! Equation Editor is soooooo cludgy!
Thanks again.
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Originally Posted by miykael
It's inefficient, annoying and really clunky. I need to write, at times, massive amounts of this stuff in Word and I just wanted to know if there is something out there that just makes things easier...
It is clunky, I agree. I guess I just never thought to look for an alternative. Will keep an eye on this thread!
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No, nothing besides the Equation Editor.
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Application questions go in the Applications forum.
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