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I have a confession to make: All of my teaching documents are created in MS Word. Among professional mathematicians, this is heresy. Don’t get me wrong, I know and love and appreciate all the features of LaTeX. In fact, in graduate school, I took my laptop with me to classes and took lecture notes “real-time” in LaTeX, keeping a running, self-updating Index, Table of Contents, and Bibliography.
Microsoft Mathematics Add-in 2013 for Microsoft Word and Microsoft OneNote makes it easy to plot graphs in 2D and 3D, solve equations or inequalities, and simplify algebraic expressions in your Word documents and OneNote notebooks. Aug 26, 2010 Microsoft Mathematics Add-in for Microsoft Word and Microsoft OneNote is a set of tools that enable users to plot graphs in 2D and 3D, calculate numerical results, solve equations or inequalities, and simplify algebraic expressions in Word documents and OneNote notebooks. A: Clicking Help on the Mathematics menu launches the Microsoft Mathematics Add-in Help file which contains detailed explanations of each feature and function in the add-in. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.
I even really like writing in LaTeX, I like coding graphics and figures in TikZ, and for a while my favorite hobby was writing the LaTeX code for a great out-of-print book called Algebras, Lattices, and Varieties:Vol I (by McKenzie, McNulty, Taylor, ISBN 0534076513). In fact, you can see the PDF output of my efforts on Ralph Freese‘s course homepage for his universal algebra class. So for stuff I want to look really “pretty” (like the paper I published or my PhD dissertation), I’m down with all the LaTeX fans.
The problem is that I generate a lot of teaching documents. I provide my students with complete lecture notes for my courses, and as they will happily complain, they end up with a three-inch binder of printed materials. So I need something that I can quickly create and edit from a variety of places. Getting WinEdt installed with all the LaTeX packages I use, on machines that I don’t own or Administrate, it is beyond my threshold for acceptable frustration. So, hello Microsoft Word, my dear old friend!
Mathematics in Microsoft Word
If you haven’t used the built-in Equation Editor in Microsoft Word in a while, you might be happily surprised with what it can do now. First, I can input an equation easily using [Alt]-[=], and they are WYSIWYG. No compile/view/re-compile process! Second, it has gotten a lot easier to save a Word document as a PDF file. (I should say that I’ve had some difficulty getting the PDF producer to “play nice” with parentheses, but in that case I can always revert to CutePDF.)
Third, and most important, the Equation Editor has learned some LaTeX. It knows the stuff you use most often: Things like “ldots” and “delta” and “Int_0^2” all do exactly what you think they should. It even has some {align} or {eqnarray} environment functionality, where you can align a series of equations at an equals sign.
But none of this is as cool as the Mathematics Add-In.
Microsoft Excel add-ins Microsoft Excel is about cold data. But these Excel add-ins not only help you bring in different types of data, but also design visually appealing spreadsheets. May 23, 2011 Microsoft Mathematics provides a set of mathematical tools that help students get school work done quickly and easily. With Microsoft Mathematics, students can learn to solve equations step-by.
Microsoft Mathematics Add-In
It’s a computational engine that will display graphs, solve equations, and do lots of things your favorite graphing calculator can do, too. It’s available freeat http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=17786.
It will generate awesome graphs of multivariable functions easily:
Did I mention that it is free?!?
If you want some quick documentation on how to use the Add-In, check out these Dropbox files: docx format or pdf format.
If you want some longer documentation, Microsoft has a support webpage with even more information. I found out about the Mathematics Add-In from a brief article I read, I think in The Mathematics Teacher, that I can’t find now! It made me scream, “How come no one told me about this sooner?! It’s awesome!” So check it out.
The product is currently working for the following applications and platforms:
- Excel on iPad
- Excel on Mac (Microsoft 365)
- Excel 2016 or later on Mac
- Excel 2019 or later on Mac
- Excel 2013 or later on Windows
- Excel 2016 or later on Windows
- Excel 2019 or later on Windows
- Excel on Windows (Microsoft 365)
- Excel on the web
- Word on iPad
- Word on Mac (Microsoft 365)
- Word 2016 or later on Mac
- Word 2019 or later on Mac
- Word on the web
- Word 2013 or later on Windows
- Word 2016 or later on Windows
- Word 2019 or later on Windows
- Word on Windows (Microsoft 365)
- PowerPoint on iPad
- PowerPoint on Mac (Microsoft 365)
- PowerPoint 2016 or later on Mac
- PowerPoint 2019 or later on Mac
- PowerPoint on the web
- PowerPoint 2013 or later on Windows
- PowerPoint 2016 or later on Windows
- PowerPoint 2019 or later on Windows
- PowerPoint on Windows (Microsoft 365)
- OneNote on the web
How to install Microsoft Office Add-in ?
1. Install the extension from Microsoft App Store (menu: 'Install' / 'Add-in').
2. Click to 'Add'. There will be a new menu: 'FMath' with a submenu: 'Math Editor'
3. Click on 'Math Editor' submenu and click 'Run Editor Add-in'
Need help ?
Go to Support Page