How do you use the keyboard to insert a square root symbol in Microsoft Word Equation Editor? I know that it can be inserted using the mouse, but I'm using it so frequently that that method (or copying and pasting it from somewhere I've already used it) is cumbersome.
Word – Typing square root symbols in Microsoft Word Equation Editor
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These are the same format. My company, Design Science, makes the Equation Editor that comes with Microsoft Office on Mac and Windows since 1991 or so. MathType is the fancy version of Equation Editor with lots more features, including the TeX input feature you mention. Your publisher should be encouraged to mention that it accepts both MathType and Equation Editor equations as most publishers do. I suspect they have been getting documents containing MathType equations and handling them just fine all along.
By the way, the next version of MathType will feature compatibility with Mac Office 2011 which is due out later this month. As you may know, Microsoft left out Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) support in Office 2008 but they are bringing it back in this new version. That means MathType will have more commands like it has in Office 2004. In particular, you will be able to insert new equations without going through the Insert Object process.
Using Equation Tools, you cannot use the tab key to tabulate things. Instead, use the “Matrix” tools or the “Bracket” tools there. What can be done, and how it is done, depends on the context and purpose of formatting. In a simple case where you have a system of equations and you want to align them to the equals sign (as might be the case here), the following trick works:
- In the Structures group, Bracket part, select a tool for an expression with a left brace on the left.
- Type the equations in the cells.
- Change the equation display mode to Linear. You now have something like {█(P=N/C@X+Y+Z=0)┤.
- Edit this format by inserting an ampersand (&) before each equals sign.
- Change the equation display mode back to Professional. You now have:
OK, this is different—the spacing is before P, not after it, but this a common alignment style. You might be able to modify the style by using different notations in the Linear display mode, which is actually a linearized notation system, described in UTN #28 (Unicode Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics).
(I think the question refers to Equation Tools, in integrated part of Word, as available in Word 2007 and newer, and not to the old, much more primitive equation editor, officially called Microsoft Equation 3.0, which is still available in new versions, but hardly of any use.)
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\sqrt xfollowed by another space to insert the square root of x. Replacexwith a longer expression in parentheses to insert the square root of that, e.g.,\sqrt (x+1). Don't forget that space at the end, as that's what extends the square root symbol's horizontal bar over everything and removes the parentheses. Source.