Edward Dreyer is wrong when he says that Word "totally lacks" an equation editor. It has a perfect good equation editor built on MathType. You simply need to install it when you install Word.
I use MathType because I write a lot of equations. It is a great equation editor. But the equation editor in Word is perfectly fine--it is just missing a few of the bells and whistles of MathType. It is certainly not a second rate editor.
Sorry for defending MS.
Dave Howell
Ronny Richardson has provided a neat little trick for inserting x-bar and other statistical__________________________________
notation when using Microsoft's Word.
If,however, if one writes quite a bit of statistical notation and/or formula, Word is totally
inadequate. Far superior is WordPerfect with its Equation [and symbol] Editor -- a feature Word totally lacks.
Another alternative -- especially for those wedded to Word -- is buying an equation/symbol editor
add-on. There are several available, no doubt, but the one I have used when it was necessary to compose in Word
is MathType. For information about this product, click on http://www.mathtype.com.
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David C. Howell
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University of Vermont
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