Equation display in powerpoint

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Is equation displayed normally in your PowerPoint 12? Equations can be
displayed normally in Word 12, but when I copy it to PowerPoint, there's some
distortion. And when I install Mathtype(version 5.2c), I got the information
below:
An unsupported version of Office has been detected. Please contact Design
Science (http://www.dessci.com) for information about upgrading to a newer
version. Setup will continue.
However, the same thing won't happen in Office 2003. No distortion, no this
info.
I got 2 pictures of PowerPoint 12 and PowerPoint 2003, see the links below
ppt12: http://www.newsmth.net/att.php?p.612.43092.697.JPG
ppt2003: http://www.newsmth.net/att.php?p.612.43092.115930.JPG
How can I get equation rightly displayed in PowerPoint 12?
 
I'm having exactly the same problem. it looks like the spacing in powerpoint
is messed up when you open a doc in it. The only solution I have found is to
do the editing in powerpoint 2007, then do the viewing in the powerpoint 2003
viewer.

Oh, and John, it WAS a powerpoint question. You might want to READ the post
before you complain.
 
Here is the solution:

(I'm cross posting from Steve Rindsberg ) 6/1/2006 8:52 PM PST

Stoughton
wrote:
I am unable to use Powerpoint 2007 with the equation editor (insert
object/equation editor 3.0). It compresses the equation together and is
totally useless. When i try to drag the handles the size of the equation can
be changed but it the elements remain overprinted and the right side cut off.


Does anyone know what can be done about this? Why doesn't the new equation
editor in Word work also in Powerpoint? I have to do a public presentation
with equations and I am getting desperate.
Click to expand...

You probably aren't in the mood for a scolding about the dangers of beta
software and the folly of getting yourself in a situation where you have to
depend on it and can't revert to the previous version.

So I'll zip it.

But try this:

After inserting the equation and before doing ANYTHING else to it, rightclick
and choose COPY.

Next click the HOME tab

At the far left of the ribbon, click the downarrow under Paste and choose
Paste
Special.

In the dialog box that comes up, choose Enhanced Metafile.

Now you can scale it up by dragging the corners and so on. The results here
look quite reasonable. Far far better than what the Insert originally
supplied.

Good luck with your presentation and never ever put any trust in beta software
again. "Beta" is softwaredeveloperspeak for "chock full of bugs"


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