Creating and inserting a formula in Word - Step-by-step guide. Setting spacing between formula elements

Many users experience difficulties when they need to paste formulas in Word, since this function is rather unclear in Microsoft's text editor.

The situation is complicated by the fact that one of the most popular word processing programs in the world is completely updated every few years.

As a result, the interface is redesigned and the controls change their location.

Therefore, if you knew Word 2003 perfectly, then when working with newer versions you may have questions about how to do this or that action that you previously performed automatically.

This statement is completely true for inserting formulas.

Working with formulas in Word 2003

This version of the text editor was the last to create documents in the well-known DOC format by default (supported since 1997), and the first to undergo a commercial rebranding from MS.

As the future has shown, the change in design of the Office 2007 suite has become very effective solution, as evidenced by the fact that many organizations and private users still use this version of the office software package.

A specific feature of Word 2003 is the use of a separate application, Microsoft Equations 0.3, for working with formulas, the window of which opens every time you insert a new mathematical expression.

To insert a formula, you need to find the “Insert” item in the top panel and select “Object” from the drop-down menu.

After this, a window for selecting an insertion object will appear. You must click on Microsoft Equations 3.0

After this, the formula editor will automatically launch and the main window of this subroutine will open in front of the user, in which you can write any possible formula construction.

The program has a laconic interface, made in accordance with the design style of all Microsoft products of that period. At the top there is a control panel where standard functions are located.
Below are categories of various mathematical symbols, after selecting one of which a list of available elements will open. In order to select the desired symbol, just click on it with the left mouse button.
All the notation is intuitive, many of them have a dotted rectangle icon indicating that there should be some kind of mathematical expression in that place.

The style function allows you to select the font and style type for certain characters. To define your own settings, click Style and then Define.

The “Size” menu item allows you to adjust the size various elements formulas and also has the ability to set custom settings, for which you need to follow the path “Size” - “Define”.

Advice! You cannot put a space in the formula editor - the sizes between elements are adjusted automatically. If you need to insert an interval of a particular length, select the appropriate element from the suggested characters.

When you have completed entering the formula, press Esc or close the window, as a result of which it will be inserted into the main element. Repeated editing is carried out by double-clicking LMB.
The size of the formula field can be changed and moved by simply dragging the mouse.

Working with formulas in Word 2007 and 2010

Word 2010 and Word 2007 are very similar to each other, which also applies to the formula editor.

Therefore, if you are using a Microsoft office suite released in 2010, you can use the instructions described above to insert mathematical expressions.

This version of the text editor has its own formula designer, which has its own taskbar. Therefore, working with it is significantly different from Word 2003.

To create a formula, use the “Insert” item and the “Formula” subitem, after activating which the user is offered the most common options, such as Newton’s binomial, area of a circle, etc.
To enter your own expression, select the “Insert” function new formula».

As a result of these actions, the designer for working with formulas will open, which has its own toolbar, divided into three categories: Tools, Symbols and Structures.
Despite a large number of capabilities, there is no numbering, but even during the first acquaintance this is not a big problem.

The functions of the Service category allow you to select any standard expression, and if you click on the small arrow at the bottom of the panel, the formula parameters window will open, in which you can set some specific settings before inserting a custom formula, but most of them are unlikely for the average user will they come in handy?

The next category is the most important, as it gives access to all possible symbols. By default, the table displays basic mathematical symbols such as operation signs, infinity symbol, equals symbol, etc.
To insert, for example, a Greek letter, you need to change the group of symbols, for which LMB click on the arrow below the scroll slider, and then on the triangle after the name of the symbol group and select the required selection.

The last category of functions provides the user with various standard symbol constructions such as fraction, limit, trigonometric functions, with the help of which mathematical calculations are carried out.
Everything here is intuitive: select the appropriate subcategory, click on it, and then click on the specific expression.

The finished formula does not require saving, since it is one of the insertion elements, along with clips, pictures or diagrams. To continue working on other elements, simply move the cursor to another part of the document and continue writing text.
To change the formula, click on it once. The formula can be dragged by “grabbing” the panel to the left of the input field, which shows three dots.

Third-party formula editors for Word

Some users are skeptical about various innovations and believe that older versions of Word worked better, while modern ones are overloaded with unnecessary functionality.

One of the most functional solutions in this area is the LaTex editor (which can be downloaded for free on the official website latex-project.org).

Its developers created own language programming, allowing you to give the document exactly the look that the user needs.

However, optimal solution for home use by users who do not want to understand the specifics of complex programs, MathType is.

It represents a small third party program, which runs along with the Word editor.

At the same time, creating formulas in MathType is very similar to working with Microsoft Equations 3.0, so this software can be called a kind of updated version of the previous standard Word constructor, which is no longer supported.

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Creating and inserting a formula in Word - Step by step guide

Text editor functionality Microsoft Word in fact, they are not limited to just working with text. So, this office application allows you to create tables, charts and graphs, add and change images and much more. One of the most interesting, although not the most obvious, functions is the insertion of formulas and equations, as well as the creation of them from scratch. We will tell you how this is done in this article.

As is the case with most objects that Word supports, adding and creating formulas in a text document is done in the tab "Insert". The user has four options to choose from various options— from using ready-made templates to self-creation recording and even manual entry. We will consider all this, as well as some additional features and nuances, in more detail later, but first of all, we will tell and show how to move on to the section of the program that interests us.

Method 1: Selecting template and frequently used examples

In the menu for creating equations in Microsoft Word there are several ready-made templates, to add any of which to the document you just need to click on it with LMB. These include the following:

Of course, this will not be enough for most users, and therefore it is not surprising that such a modest list can be supplemented with both your own formulas and additional equations on the Office.com website, which are actually available right in the program. To select them and then insert them, simply move the cursor over the corresponding menu item for adding a new entry.

Next, we will briefly talk about how to work with initially formatted, template mathematical records in Word.

Note: All formulas and equations, whether templated or hand-written, use the Cambria Math font and cannot be changed. All other parameters (changing the style type, size, color, etc.) remain available.

Immediately after adding a template equation (like any other) you will be redirected to the tab "Constructor"(do not confuse with the one that is not initially present in the Microsoft Word toolbar and is located between the tabs "Insert" And "Layout", previously it was called "Design").

Note: Tab "Constructor", through which all work with formulas is carried out, is active and open only at the time when the field for inserting a new equation is highlighted and/or you are interacting with it.

There are three main categories of tools, namely:

Transformations;
Symbols;
Structures.

Get access to opportunities "Transformations" You can also use the menu with the added formula block - just LMB on the downward-pointing triangle. Among other things, from here you can save the equation as a template, which we will talk about later, and determine the type of its alignment on the document page.

If you need to make changes to the added entry, use the Section Toolkit "Symbols" And "Structures".

When you're done with the equation, simply click on a blank area of the page. If you then press the spacebar, the entry originally inserted in the middle will be aligned to the left (or whatever is set as the default alignment options for the current document).

Method 2: Create your own equations

Much more often you need to add not a template entry to a text document, but an arbitrary one or one simply missing from the list "Built-in" the equation. This is done as follows:

In the menu dropdown list "The equation" select item "Insert New Equation", after which a record field will be added to the page.

Note: To insert a formula field called "Room for the Equation", you can use hotkeys, namely the combination “ ALT+= ».
To handwrite an equation, use the elements presented in the second and third group of tools on the tab. "Constructor" — "Symbols" And "Structures".

The latter include the following:
- Fraction;
- Index;
- Root;
- Integral;
- Large operator;
- Bracket;
- Function;
- Diacritics;
- Limit and logarithm;
- Operator;
- Matrix.
Here's an example of how to write a simple equation:
After you enter the formula, left-click on an empty area of the page.

If necessary, align the position of the entry to the left by pressing the spacebar or accessing the additional actions menu (drop-down list of the equation block).

In comparison with the method of inserting template formulas discussed above, creating them yourself provides much wider opportunities. This is how you can add a record of any complexity and structure to a text document, although this procedure not always convenient.

Method 3: Handwriting equations

If the set of mathematical symbols and structures presented in the tab "Constructor" and intended for creating records yourself, for some reason you are not satisfied, you can add a formula or equation the good old way - by writing it by hand, or rather, using a mouse (or a stylus on devices with a touch screen). This is done as follows:

In the menu for inserting a new equation, select the penultimate item "Handwritten Equation".

A window will open , top part of which is the preview area, the bottom one is the toolbar, and the largest part occupies the middle input area.

Just in it using a mouse (or a stylus, if supported by the screen) and a tool "Write" and the formula should be written by hand. Try to do this carefully, since the handwriting recognition algorithm is by no means perfect.

Note: As you write the formula, the field for entering it will automatically expand.

If you make a mistake, use the tool "Erase", which deletes the entire selected character at once.

In addition to removal, error correction is also available, which is done by the tool "Select and fix". With its help, select a symbol by circling it, and then select from the drop-down menu what you want to replace it with.

You can also select more than one character, for example, a letter and a degree, and in this case even more correction options will be available. All this is clearly useful in cases where the program algorithm confuses one character with another, for example, the number “2” and Latin letter"Z", or simply does not recognize it correctly.

If necessary, you can also clear the handwriting field and start writing the formula again.

To add a manually created entry to the page, click the button "Insert" located at the bottom of the window "Entering a Mathematical Formula".

Further interaction with the formula is no different from template ones and those created using symbols and structures built into Word.

Saving your own formulas as a template

If you often need to write down the same formulas while working with documents, it would be wise to add them to the list of frequently used ones. This way you will create ready-made template, which will be available from the insert menu in just a couple of mouse clicks.

Create a formula that you want to add to the list of templates, and then select it by clicking LMB on the “frame”.

Click on the button "The equation" located in the group "Service"(tab "Constructor") and in the menu that appears, select “Save the selected fragment to the collection of equations...”.

In the dialog box that appears, create a name for the formula to save. In the dropdown list "Collection" select item "Equations" and, if desired, define a category or leave the one that the program will automatically “select”.

If necessary, define other parameters (add a description and select where the saved equation will be added), then click "OK".

The formula saved as a template will appear in the Word quick access list, which opens immediately after clicking the button "The equation" ("Formula") in Group "Service".

Inserting a formula into a table cell

Despite the fact that in the Microsoft Office package Excel is responsible for working with tables, Word also allows you to create and process elements of this type. Yes, the capabilities of a text editor in this regard are much more modest than those of its brother, but the built-in functionality will be enough to solve basic problems.

Direct insertion of equations, templates or ones created independently, into the table is carried out using exactly the same algorithm as in all the cases we have considered, which can be understood from the screenshot presented above. However, in addition to this, the program has the ability to add a formula to any cell of a Word table, similar to how it is done in Excel. We'll talk about this further.

The 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 when completing their diploma or coursework. This article is devoted to how to insert formulas in Word 2003.

Calling the window for creating and editing formulas

This version of the editor does not have its own tool for this purpose. This defect has been corrected in new versions. Therefore, to write a formula in Word 2003, you need the help of a third-party application - Microsoft Equation 3.0. It is installed along with a text editor.

Formula editor window in Word 2003

It is very similar to a text editor, but more ascetic. It does not have many panels for quickly calling functions. There is only a worksheet, a standard menu bar, a panel/window for inserting mathematical symbols, operators, structures 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:

File.

Contains only 2 items: “Update formula” and “Exit”.

Edit.

Allows you to use the standard “Select All”, “Copy”, “Paste” and “Cut”. But it is more convenient to use the “hot keys” associated with these commands.

Disables and enables the display of the panel/window for inserting mathematical symbols and scales the worksheet.

Allows you to align the formula relative to the edges of the sheet. More interesting is the “Interval” menu item. It allows you to adjust the spacing between characters, subscripts, lines, and parentheses within a formula.

Specifies the font types and their format (bold or italic) for all letters and numbers in an expression. There are 6 ready-made styles preinstalled, and the “Define” menu item allows you to customize your own, but does not allow you to save it.

Determines the size of characters in a formula by group (subscripts, large or small characters, etc.). The dimension used is the same as in a text editor (points or pt).

The left side of the status bar displays 3 options: Style, Size, and Scale. In order to apply the first 2 to an already created formula, you need to select the last one and select the desired value in the corresponding menus.

Panel for inserting special characters and structures

It consists of 19 buttons that group symbols of a certain type:

Relations (more than, less than, equal to, etc.).
Spaces and ellipses are often used to write general formulas.
Superscripts.
Logical operators.
Arrows.
Logical symbols.
Symbols of set theory.
Letters Greek alphabet(big and small).
Various brackets.
Fractions and root signs.
Integrals.
Matrices.

Thanks to such a clear division, figuring out how to insert a formula in Word 2003 will not be difficult even for a person who has seen this editor for the first time.

Usage example

As an example of how to insert formulas in Word 2003, let's create the simplest trigonometric identity “sin2+cos2=1” and the Taylor series. The trigonometric equality is created as follows:

Enter “sin” into the formula editor field.

Insert a degree using the group button “Templates of upper and lower indices (1 row, 1 icon) and change its value to “2”.

Add the letter "alpha" using the button " Greek letters(lowercase)".

Using the arrows, 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.

The Taylor series only at first glance looks difficult to create. In fact, recreating it takes 2-3 minutes. The algorithm is as follows:

Insert a sum sign with upper and lower indices, fill them with the values “+”k and “+”n=0, respectively.

Insert a fraction using the Fraction Templates button.

Write “f” into the numerator, add the degree index “n” to it, add “(a)”.

Add “n!” to the denominator.

Move the cursor to the right, enter “(x-a)”, add the exponent index “n”.

Place the “=” sign.

Enter “f(a)(x-a)+”

Copy the part of the expression resulting from steps 3, 4, 5 and replace n with the number 2.

Put “+”, add an ellipsis (the “Spaces and ellipses” button, 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 ease of creating formulas and the user-friendliness of the interface.

Conclusion

There is only one way to insert a formula in Word 2003. But it is also quite enough to create complex formulas in a few minutes or edit cumbersome calculations for completing a coursework, dissertation or scientific paper.

Even though Microsoft Word 2016 is now available, many people still use the 2003 version the old fashioned way. And there is a high probability that when working, a person may be faced with the need to write a formula in a document. Now we’ll figure out how to insert a formula in Word 2003, and talk about what to do if the necessary components are missing.

How to insert a formula

So, you have an open Word 2003 document in which you need to insert a formula. To do this, click “Insert” in the top toolbar and then select “Object”. A window called “Insert Object” will appear in front of you. Here, on the “Creation” tab, you need to select an object called Microsoft Equation 3.0. After you have selected the required line, click OK.

You will return to your document and the first thing you will notice is the change, the top panel has completely disappeared, and in its place another one has appeared, with the subtitle “Formula”. That's what we need.

As you can see, the panel is divided into two lines. The top one is necessary for entering mathematical symbols. The lower one allows you to display templates with multiple input fields for creating complex formulas.

Also, no one canceled keyboard input. That is, you can enter the necessary letters, thereby making it possible to write constants, variables or comments if they are necessary.

After you have written the formula, you need to return to the document; to do this, use the ESC key. After clicking it, you will be taken to the source document, where the formula will be transformed into a picture. To continue working with it, just double-click on it.

If you don't have Microsoft Equation 3.0

If after you entered the “Insert Object” window and did not find 3.0 in the list, do not despair - this problem is easily solved. Just during the installation of the Microsoft Office package, this component was not installed. To solve the problem, find installation disk and insert into the drive. Meanwhile, sometimes closing all third-party programs helps.

So, the disk is inserted, which means that now we need to go to the “Control Panel”. If you have the Windows XP operating system installed, then you need to click “Start”, go to “Settings”, and then select “Control Panel”. After opening the window, you need to go to “Add or Remove Programs”.

On other versions of Windows, there is almost a similar way to get to this utility. In any case, you can use the search in the system.

Here is a list of all installed programs on your computer, you need to find only one - Microsoft Office (if there is none, then look for Microsoft Word). Next, click on it with the left mouse button, the “Change” button will appear, feel free to click on it.

Now you have three choices, you can delete or add individual components MS Office, reinstall them or completely remove the entire program. Select the first option and click “Next”.

In the next step, initially check the box next to Word, and then next to the words “Advanced application setup”, and click “Next”

Now you see all the components installed with MS Word, we are only interested in one, so find “Office Tools” and click the plus next to it.

After this, sub-items will appear. Next step will find the item “Formula Editor” and right-click on it, in context menu you need to click on the line “Run from my computer”.

Once you have done this, immediately click “Update”. After that, close and open Microsoft Word. Now the item you need has appeared in the “Insert Object” window; entering a formula in Word 2003 has become available.

After entering the formulas they disappear

So, we already know how to insert a formula in Word 2003, and we also learned how to add the component necessary for this - Microsoft Equation 3.0, but, unfortunately, there are other problems with using formulas. For example, now let's look at the situation when you entered the necessary formula and confirmed it, it simply disappears. The problem is quite common in operating systems Windows versions over XP, but, fortunately, it is easily solved.

First of all, it is worth discussing what is causing the problem. The thing is that once you have installed the program, it is not configured. To be more precise, the fonts are not configured, Word simply does not recognize them, and because of this, an error occurs, accompanied by the disappearance of formulas.

In order to eliminate this problem, you need to put on the formulas a font that supports MS Word. To do this, click “Style” on the top toolbar and select “Define” from the menu.

A style window will appear in front of you and next to the “Function” line, select the Times New Roman font in the drop-down list. After this, the formulas will be entered without problems. Of course, you can use other styles that Word supports, but this one is great for business documents.

Field codes instead of formulas

As you can see, knowing how to insert a formula in Word 2003, you can still encounter many problems, so we continue to discuss them.

Perhaps someone has encountered such a problem that after entering and confirming the formula, it is converted to a field code, for example, to (EMBEDEguation.3).

Fixing this problem is very simple. Enter “Options...” by initially clicking on “Service” in the top panel.

After selecting the "View" tab, uncheck the box next to the "Field Codes" line. That's it, now after entering formulas they will be displayed correctly.

How to change the size of formulas and change the spacing between characters?

You now know how to insert a formula in Word, but most likely you may encounter a problem when you need to increase the font size of the formulas or change the spacing between characters. This is not a problem, but a necessity, so this issue is also worth raising.

So, to determine a new font size, start initially entering the formula, then select it and, without leaving the formula editor, in the top panel click on “Size”, and then “Define...”. A window will appear in front of you in which you can change the size of all elements.

Well, if you want to change the interval, then in the same panel select “Format” and in the menu click on “Interval...”.

That’s basically all I wanted to say about how to insert a formula into Word 2003. We also figured out what to do if the formulas are not displayed.

If you are writing a diploma or exam and you WORD document need to write formulas, That this lesson It will help you a lot. It’s good that WORD has this function, and with the help special tools you can insert formulas that are very necessary when writing tests in algebra, chemistry and other subjects.

To WORD insert formula open new document and go to the Insert tab and a little to the right find the Object button.

In the window that opens, specify the object type Microsoft Equation 3.0 and click OK.

Now we have a form where we can select any characters using the mouse. There are several dozen here various roots, powers, fractions and many other things that may be useful to a student or schoolchild.

Select the signs you need and then close the form by clicking on the arrow.

All entered data will remain on the Word document, and we can continue typing text.

And also pay attention to the Symbols button next to the button An object(also on the tab Insert). By clicking there we can launch a special panel, by clicking on the letter P.

After this, the panel will start again with various signs who will help us in writing formulas, equations etc.

By the way, there is also the possibility insert ready-made equations.

2 way to insert formulas into WORD

You can insert formulas not only into WORD. For example, in WINDOWS 7 and 8 a convenient Math Input Panel, which also allows you to easily write formulas.

In Semyorka you can launch this program via Start - All Programs - Accessories - Math Input Panel. In Eight, press the key combination WIN+Q and enter the name in the search bar.

Here everything needs to be written in the same way as with a pen in a notebook, only here mouse cursor is used. We write the necessary symbols and signs on this panel, and a text version will automatically appear at the top of the program. Please note that tools appear on the right, in the form of an eraser, undo action and complete clear.

At the bottom of the program there is an Insert button that will help insert the written formula into WORD. Naturally, at the time of insertion, WORD must be open and located next to the mathematical input panel.