What are all of the keyboard shortcuts for OneNote 2013 equation editor

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I love using OneNote 2013 for my note taking, but whenever the professor starts writing equations I start to get behind by having to use the equation editor and manually entering in equations, symbols, etc,. I'd like to speed up my equation editing by using the keyboard shortcuts/quick formatting features built in. What are these shortcuts?

Example shortcuts that I already know:

  • Alt + = will start a new equation editor

  • x_i + space = xi

  • x^i + space = xi

  • if I type in:

    (<equation>)/(<equation>) + space

    I get a nicely formatted equation like so:

    <equation>
----------
<equation>

These are just a few. I'm looking for an exhaustive list of these features.

Note: I'm not looking for keyboard shortcuts for just OneNote. I'm specifically talking about the equation editor.

Best Answer

UPDATE DEC 2020

The equation editor was updated in Office 2018 onwards. Documentation for the new editor is here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/write-an-equation-or-formula-1d01cabc-ceb1-458d-bc70-7f9737722702

The functionality appears to largely be unaltered, so the information in this answer is likely to work, but I have not tested it. The white paper linked below is likely still relevant, though the original listing document has been removed and the link no longer works.

OLD ANSWER

A few months late, but I believe This is the document you are looking for. (LINK NOW DEAD) As best I can tell, OneNote 2013 uses the same equation editor as Word 2007/2010.

A whitepaper on the Word 2007 equation editor key commands can be found HERE on unicode.org.

TL;DR: Symbols are basically the same as in LaTeX, as are a few simple formatting commands like \thinsp, \sqrt, etc. From there, it is pretty good at figuring out what you mean if you type it the way you would try to type it in plaintext.

ALT+= enters an equation at the cursor point.

A handful of symbols:

?  \partial  

?  \alpha    ?    \eta       ο    \omicron     ?  \upsilon
?  \beta     ??    \iota      ?    \pi          ?  \varpi
?  \chi      ?    \varphi    ?    \theta       ?  \omega
?  \delta    ?    \kappa     ?    \vartheta    ?  \xi
?  \epsilon  ?    \lambda    ?    \rho

Other handy notation:

\sum
\int
\scriptL

To add extra space:

\hairsp  a small space  
\thinsp  a wider space

To add a function, type its name followed by a space:

sin<sp>\theta becomes sin ?

If a function is not recognized (like sinc), you can force apply function styling with \funcapply, by typing sinc\funcapply<sp>

Derivative ticks:

x′ x\prime<sp>

To do fractions, use /:

a/b

Parentheses are treated as a grouping character. For example, they would NOT show up in the fraction (a+b)/c. To get them to show, use ((a+b))/c. Delimiters (), [], and {} will automatically grow to the size of whatever is contained within them. You can pad the space within delimiters with \phantom and \vphantom.

The rest you will have to go read up on yourself, as Markdown doesn't support rendering LaTeX examples (AFAIK).

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