Word text editor allows you to create, edit, format and fill texts with various objects. For example, formulas. They are necessary for students of technical and economic specialties in the design of diploma or term papers. This article is devoted to how to insert formulas in the Word 2003.
Calling the window for creating and editing formulas
This version of the editor does not have its own tool for this purpose. In new versions, this defect was fixed. Therefore, to write the formula in Word 2003, you need the help of a third-party application - Microsoft Equation 3.0. It is installed with a text editor.
To insert a new formula into the text, select "Object ..." in the "Insert" menu. This will bring up a small window listing the possible types of objects to be inserted. In the list, select "Microsoft Equation 3.0" and click "OK."
If, however, when trying to launch it, Word gives an error, this means that the formula editor was installed with an error. Therefore, reinstalling the Office software package or Word editor is required if there is a file for a separate installation.
Formula Editor window in Word 2003
It is very similar to a text editor, but more ascetic. It does not have many panels for quick function calls. There is only a worksheet, a line of standard menus, a panel / window for inserting mathematical symbols, operators, constructions and a status bar.
Standard menu bar
This is what the menu bar looks like in the window where formulas are inserted in Word 2003. This part of the interface includes the following sections:
It contains only 2 points: “Update the formula” and “Exit”.
Allows you to use the standard "Select All", "Copy", "Paste" and "Cut". But it’s more convenient to use the hot keys attached to these commands.
Disables and enables the display of the panel / window for inserting mathematical symbols and scales the sheet.
Allows you to align the formula with the edges of the sheet. The “Interval” menu item is more interesting. It allows you to customize the distance between characters, indices, strings and brackets inside the formula.
Defines the types of fonts and their format (bold or italics) for all letters and numbers in the expression. There are 6 predefined styles predefined, and the “Define” menu item allows you to configure your own, but does not allow you to save it.
Determines the size of characters in a formula by group (indexes, large or small characters, etc.). The dimension used is the same as in a text editor (points or pt).
On the left side of the status bar, 3 options are displayed: Style, Size, and Scale. In order to apply the first 2 to an already created formula, select the last one and select the desired value in the corresponding menus.
Panel for inserting special characters and constructions
It consists of 19 buttons grouping characters of a certain type:
- Relations (more, less, equal, etc.).
- Spaces and dots, often used to write general formulas.
- Superscript characters.
- Logical operators
- Arrows
- Logical symbols.
- Symbols of set theory.
- The letters of the Greek alphabet (large and small).
- A variety of brackets.
- Fractions and signs of roots.
- Integrals.
- Matrices.
Thanks to such a clear division, figuring out how to insert the formula into Word 2003 will not be difficult even for the person who first saw this editor.
Usage example
An example of how to insert formulas into Word 2003 is the creation of the simplest trigonometric identity “sin 2 + cos 2 = 1” and the Taylor series. Trigonometric equality is created as follows:
- Enter “sin” in the field of the formula editor.
- Insert the degree using the group button “Templates of superscripts and subscripts (1 row, 1 icon) and change its value to“ 2 ”.
- Add the letter “alpha” using the button “Greek letters (lowercase)”.
- Use the arrows to move the cursor beyond the degree (it should become a normal size) and add “+ cos”.
- Repeat step 2.
- Repeat step 3
- Move the cursor to the right and add “= 1”.
- Close the editor window.
Taylor's series only at first glance looks complicated to create. In fact, its reconstruction takes 2-3 minutes. The algorithm is as follows:
- Insert the sum sign with the upper and lower indices, fill them with the values “+” k and “+” n = 0, respectively.
- Insert a fraction using the "Fraction Patterns" button.
- Write “f” in the numerator, add an index of degree “n” to it, add “(a)”.
- Add “n!” To the denominator.
- Move the cursor to the right, enter “(xa)”, add an index of degree “n”.
- Put the sign "=".
- Enter "f (a) (xa) +"
- Copy the part of the expression resulting from steps 3, 4, 5, and replace n with the number 2.
- Put a “+”, add an ellipsis (the button “Spaces and ellipses”, row 3, icon 1) and insert “+” again.
- Repeat step 8, replacing “n” with “k”.
- Close the editor window using the "File" menu or by clicking on the cross in the upper right corner of the window.
These 2 examples clearly demonstrate the simplicity of creating formulas and the user friendliness of the interface.
Conclusion
There is only one way to insert a formula into Word 2003. But it is quite enough to create complex formulas in a few minutes or to edit cumbersome calculations for registration of term papers, diploma or scientific work.