Word randomly rescales equations and other embedded objects
Sometimes in a Word document containing several equations, after closing and re-opening Word, the equations have been randomly re-scaled. The proportions aren't off by more than a few percent, but it's noticeable. An example would be height & width of 97x101%, when of course the original was 100x100%. To be clear, this isn't with a specific version of WinWord, but it is specific to equations created MS Equation 3.0 and MathType -- IOW, equation objects. We've seen this happen with other objects too, primarily embedded Excel charts, so it does seem like it's Word causing the issue, and not Equation Editor, MathType, nor Excel or any other app.
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28 comments
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Mary Villanueva
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This also happens with Office 2016 and Office 2013 which I use at home. Very frustrating to have to redo equations over and over.
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Fasataki Vasiliki
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Please fix it, I have many documentsusing mathtype
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Anonymous
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For many years now, I've been an extensive user of MathType; but since I've been using it in conjunction with Word365, I've encountered an annoying problem. Specifically, having inserted a MathType equation into a Word document, and then saved it and closed down Windows 10, there is a problem on re-opening the document on a later occasion. What happens is that the MathType symbolism appears in reduced size - and sometimes larger. This never happened with previous versions of Word (that were included in Microsoft Office, for example). I may seek a refund from Microsoft if this problem isn't soon resolved.
Peter Ruane, CHELMSFORD, UK. -
Harrys
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Please give us an update. When can we expect a solution?
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Anonymous
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This is the worst! The previous equation editor in word was SO MUCH BETTER!
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Anonymous
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Fix it !!
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Γιάννης Σβάρνας commented
My brother-in-law forced me to vote. Please fix this problem cause he is such a pain in the ass ;)
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Harrys
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I agree 100% with the followng comment: I typeset large technical books with Word and MathType. After closing and re-opening files, the thousands of equations change size slightly and not only look ugly, but affect the layout of the text in detrimental ways (including changing where pages break). This is extremely severe and should be a top priority for fixing.
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Harrys
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Over a year has passed since the problem has been submitted. "We’re reviewing your suggestion." is the best you can do?
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Harrys
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You need to fix this problem asap because as a math teacher it messes up with all my math books. When will you fix this. Please answer
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Alexandros Theo
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I have been working on a recent paper the last weeks. After I discovered this problem, Microsoft word is over for me!
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Roger
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I have been hoping with every new office release ove the last 20 years that glitches like this would be fixed - never happens. I keep thinking I should switch to Latex and never again be plagued by bugs in Word.
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Math Teacher
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It has to do with paragraph spacing and the advance font feature needing to be set to normal not raised or possibly even lowered. Save docs as Word 97-2003 Version, don't convert when you open it.
http://dessci.com/en/support/mathtype/tsn/tsn151.htm
http://dessci.com/en/support/mathtype/tsn/tsn129.htm -
Danny
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Anyone find any solutions? I found one: Uninstall Mathtype and Office, restart, then reinstall Office then Mathtype. This made the equations go back to normal for one user, but there's no telling when it will happen again.
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Anonymous
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Can you fix the problems ASAP?
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Tosh Demsey
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Please fix this problem ASAP. I am a high school math teacher and suddenly all the MathType equations in the thousands of Word documents that I have created are too large and won't print out in a way that is readable.
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Luc Gingras
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Fix this problem. I teach math and i have to remake all my Word document
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Anonymous
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fix this problem
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Eric Lengyel
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I typeset large technical books with Word and MathType. After closing and re-opening files, the thousands of equations change size slightly and not only look ugly, but affect the layout of the text in detrimental ways (including changing where pages break). This is extremely severe and should be a top priority for fixing.
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Anonymous
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This issue is very bad to writing a big document. Always need to resize almost all equations!
Please fix it for us.