rifsuda01: Rebuilding Equations in Word 2011

Sunday, 4 September 2011

Rebuilding Equations in Word 2011

The goal of this hint is to automate the process of re-creating an Equation Editor equation in Microsoft Word.

Note: This hint applies to equations created in Microsoft Word using Equation Editor. It does not apply to the new kind of equations that can be created in Office 2011.

We have many large documents that contain hundreds of equation objects each. When attempting to revise some of these documents in Word 2011, the equation objects appeard to be corrupted. Double clicking on them would open the object in Equation Editor, but changes were not reflected in the document. In addition, the baselines for each equation object did not line up with the surrounding text. The most frustrating part is that we had just invested several tens of thousands of dollars re-typesetting equations.

The only solution I could find was to open each equation object, select all of its contents and copy it, close Equation Editor, create a new equation object, and then paste th ...