This has been a long standing bug I've noticed and I never reported it
because it seemed so obvious I figured people knew about it, but it
never seems to get fixed. I'm running OpenOffice.org 2.3.0-6.5.fc7 on
Linux (Fedora 7).
Here's the steps to reproduce:
(1) Create an equation in OOo writer, make sure to use some operators
like "+", a sum, and a fraction.
(e.g. P_{all} left [1+ Sum from {m=1} to n { {n!} over {m!} }
left (1 - A right )^{n - m} right ]=1 )
(2) Save the document as a MS Word document with coversion to MathType
turned on.
(3) Open the document in MS Word and there will be boxes where the "+"
should be.
My work-around is to:
(4) Click on the equation to edit it....and it's fixed! Without you
doing any editing at all.
(5) Save the document again in MS Word.
However, without doing step four and five all your equations will seem
messed up to your co-workers using MS-Word.
Obviously, the conversion to MathType is 99.9% correct, but there's
something just not quite right and Word doesn't like it until you edit
it, which somehow fixes things automatically.
I'm sure this is a FAQ, but I really tried to find it before posting and
I could not find any information about this. Please tell me someone is
working on fixing this really annoying problem. If someone just
compared the documents before step 4 to after step 5 they would be able
to see what's different and needs to be fixed in the conversion.
Thanks,
Rick Niles.
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