How do I place mathematical formulae into Microsoft Word?

Question

For example, I want to produce a word document with mathematical symbols to produce statistical data. How do I do this simply in Word? is there a 'mathematical' font?

Answer 1

in MS word, in the tool menu, select customize. in the customize windows, select command. on the 'categories' box on the left side, select 'insert'. on the 'command' box on the right, find 'equation editor' and drag it up. equation editor tool contain all you need to do mathematics assignment, eg. fraction, integration, differentiation, algebra etc.

Answer 2

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err.. i mean... Word does have a thing called Equation Editor, which sort of works most of the time. I think it was version 2.0 last time I looked. Try Insert->Object->Equation or something, or search the help file. That's the only sensible way of doing it.

But the long and the short of it is that Word is rubbish for maths. Really truly diabolically and very very rubbish. It has always been so.

Great typesetting of any document including one stuffed with serious maths requires LaTeX - but that's a whole gear change if you haven't done it before. If you want to try it, download miktex and do a lot of research. It's all free and extremely well supported but it's not easy for beginners.

Answer 3

There is more than likely a mathematical font, but it depends on how details your maths equations are - I am sure you can get a math font to do greek letters and math symbols, but most mathematicians use a programming code called LaTeX which is a text based programming (like html code) which is then output into pdf format (I often do it that way then paste it into word as a jpeg) but maybe do a websearch for math font and see if you can find any

Answer 4

A good program to use is TeXmacs
It is simple, produces a good looking result, and has a front end to LaTeX built into it
You can download the windows version for free and it also allows access to several CAS and graphing software eg Maxima, GNUPlot.
It is the recommended piece of software for scientific documents on many websites

Have a look at this site to see some of its basic functions
http://www.ysn.ru/docs/tex/TeXmacs/Tutorial/Start/Chapter1.html

Answer 5

In the word document click table. On the drop down menu click formula. The Formula window opens.

Answer 6

You can use the "Symbol" font for greek, and insert symbols (Go to INSERT, then SYMBOL) for your mathsy stuff. Or go on the internet and copy it from maths sites. But that's a little hard work...

Answer 7

i would use excel. depending what it was for. but you can still print and write as you can in microsoft word so give it a try.

there are also settings where if you copy and paste a fomula with the numbers in it automaticlaly works it out for you.. x

Answer 8

open word
press F1 key
type in the bubble
"mathematical formulae"

& there you go lots of options

Answer 9

try insert, symbol