If I want to indicate a negative number in the Equation Editor (Office 2007 and onward), I do this:
-5
Equation Editor renders it nicely, with the hyphen (minus sign?) right close to the number:
But if I've got something more complicated, like a vector in polar notation:
25\angle-5\degree
I get this:
Which looks more like "twenty five angle minus five degrees" rather than "negative five degrees".
Is there any way to fix this?
Best Answer
The closest solution to this problem that I found is to use "Normal text" mode. Either select the minus sign and press "Normal text" in equation constructor, or put it as
"-"5instead of simply-5The result will look like this:
You can probably bind it to some macro too, but I have no experience with VBA to recommend anything.