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Word 2007 has a new math editing and display facility that has high typographic quality and streamlined input. This tutorial describes the math facility and explains how to input mathematical text with a keyboard, context menus, and the math ribbon. Keyboard input uses a linear format that is more like a real math notation than TeX, and borrows from [La]TeX when more mathematical notation is not obvious. Demonstrations will be given revealing how formula autobuildup together with WYSIWYG editing simplify and streamline equation entry. A math calculator add-in will also be demonstrated that shows how formulas can be solved, simplified and graphed directly in Word.

Duration: 1.5 hrs

Murray Sargent is a Partner Software Design Engineer at Microsoft, working mostly on the RichEdit editing engine and math editing and display in MS Office. He completed BS, MS, and PhD degrees in theoretical physics at Yale University and worked for 22 years in the theory & application of lasers, first at Bell Labs and then as a Professor at the University of Arizona. He also worked on technical word processing, writing the first math display program SCROLL (1969) and later (1980s) the PS technical word processor. More info is given in his blog on Math in Office.