MathType 7 with Microsoft Office 2016 or later

The Browse group allows you to browse up or down through the document, stopping at Equations, Equation Numbers, or Chapter/Section Breaks.

…the desired number format for this document using the Format Equation Numbers command. You can change this format at any time, for either all existing equation numbers, just the selected equation numbers, or for new equation numbers.

…using the Insert Chapter/Section Break command. You should insert this in the document ahead of the first equation number you plan to add. The breaks are inserted as hidden text so that they won't normally appear.

…at the desired location and use the Insert Equation Number command to insert an equation number.

To insert a reference to this equation number, place the insertion point in the desired location for the reference and choose the Insert Equation Reference command. Then, double-click the equation number to be referenced, and the reference will be inserted at the original location.

To modify the chapter and/or section values of a break, use the Modify Chapter/Section Break command. The closest preceding chapter/section break will be made visible and selected, and in the dialog that appears you can modify or delete the break.

To view all chapter/section breaks, click the Show/Hide button in Word. To hide them, click this button again (you don't need to hide them when printing, as they won't appear in the printed output). When equation section breaks are shown, a quick way to open the Modify Chapter/Section Break dialog is to double-click on a break.

If you insert equation numbers out of sequence, the existing numbers and references will be automatically updated. If you copy, move or delete an equation number or reference, however, you must use the Update Equation Numbers command to refresh the sequence.

The equation number updating that occurs after you insert an equation number is usually very fast. However, you may find this updating takes a while if you are working on a slower computer or on a large document containing many equation numbers and references. The Format Equation Number dialog contains an option to turn off automatic updating. After you've finished entering equation numbers, be sure to use the Update Equation Numbers command to refresh the numbering sequence.

Click Convert if you haven't already. It will take a few seconds for MathType to start the process. After it initializes, you'll see a progress indicator in Word's status bar (the lower left of the Word window):

After MathType finishes converting all the equations, you'll see a status report:

Select everything in your Word document, copy it, and paste it into the Source or HTML view (or similar) in your rich text editor or into your document if you're converting to TeX.

As an example, we're working in CKEditor and have a Word document we want to copy over. We started with this Word document:

After converting the equations to MathML, we have:

We copy everything in the Word document and paste it into the Source view of our CKEditor:

When we switch back to normal view, after allowing a few seconds for the editor's MathType integration to process all the equations, we see our document:

Some final notes:

Choose the Publish to MathPage command from Word's MathType 7 toolbar, menu or Ribbon tab.

Edit the Title as necessary. It will appear in the browser's title bar or tab.

Choose the File Name for the web page. The default is to save it in the same folder as the Word document, but with an extension that depends on the choice you make in the Equations group (see #6 below). You can either type in the name of the file or click Browse… and choose it in the Save dialog.

If you'd like to view the page once it's been generated, check the Display in default browser checkbox.

Now you must decide how you want the document's equations displayed in the browser. MathML is a great option, but there are some considerations (see note below). If you wish to use MathML, select MathML using and choose a MathML target from the list. A brief description is displayed in the dialog for the selected target; for a more detailed description of the MathML targets, see the next topic. If you're not using MathML, you should choose Use images (GIFs). If you choose images, you can also turn on MathZoom, which allows equations in the web page to be magnified by clicking on them. If you're using MathML and the person reading your web page is using Internet Explorer with MathPlayer, MathZoom is turned on automatically.

If you're using GIFs, choose the target browser; if you're using MathML, MathType 7 will make the appropriate browser choice automatically. Select the Internet Explorer 6 or newer (Windows) option if you know your web page will only be viewed by people using such a browser. The page will be smaller, particularly if it contains many mathematical symbols. Otherwise, choose the All browsers option.

The settings for this web page will be saved in the Word document, and displayed in the dialog if you run this command again. You can also use these settings (other than Title and File Name) as the default values for other web pages by checking the Use settings as defaults checkbox.

Click OK to generate the web page. You'll see a progress dialog appear, and when the page has been generated it will open up in your default browser (if you selected this option).

You may notice MathType 7 has also generated a supporting files folder, with a similar name to what you named the file. For example, if your MathPage file name is deriving_limits.htm, MathType 7 will create a folder named deriving_limits_files, and will save it to the same location as your MathPage.

You should examine the web page and if you find any problems, modify the original Word document and run this command again. It's generally best not to edit the MathPage itself.

For the "purest" MathML output, this is the best choice since it uses HTML5, and MathML is part of the HTML5 spec. It doesn't rely on any external tools to render the MathML equations, but it does require a MathML-capable browser or other software, such as accessible technology (screen readers, etc.).

If you're targeting an audience with the latest and greatest browsers, the XHTML target (next bullet) is probably a better choice. If you're not sure, then this one should work in most all situations. Valid file extensions are .htm and .html; default is .htm.

All other things being equal, this is the preferred target to use. If your browser (and that of your audience) supports HTML5 or XHTML, and/or if your workflow involves ebooks, this is the clear choice. This should work in most browsers on mobile devices also. Valid file extensions are .xht, .xhtml, and .xml. Default is .xht.

This target generates the preferred cross-platform MathML format, an XHTML page containing MathML. For the pages to display properly in Internet Explorer for Windows, your audience will need MathPlayer 2.0 or newer installed. For more details please visit the MathPlayer website. This format will work with most of the latest-release browsers, but if you find it doesn't work for some of your audience, you should try one of the MathJax targets above. Valid file extensions are .xht, .xhtml, and .xml. Default is .xht.

MathPlayer is our MathML display engine for Internet Explorer 6 or newer on Windows only. Choose this target if your audience will be using only this browser, or will be using assistive technology to have the MathPage read aloud. In most cases, for more flexibility we recommend the XHTML+MathJax target. For more details please visit the MathPlayer website. Valid file extensions are .htm, .html, .shtm, .shtml, and .stm. Default is .htm.

The inclusion of the 2 MathJax targets described above has all but eliminated the need to use the Multi-browser (UMSS) MathPage target. If you choose one of the MathJax targets and find a good number of your audience is using an older browser that may not display the MathJax equations properly, or if they have JavaScript disabled, this general-use target should work. The Universal MathML Stylesheet (UMSS) is an XSLT stylesheet that permits a single web page containing MathML to be displayed in a variety of different browsers. It detects the current browser in use, and whether it has built-in support for MathML or whether a plug-in such as MathPlayer or techexplorer is available. It then makes the necessary adjustments to the content. It even uses CSS to format equations if no MathML renderer is available. This universality comes at the expense of a slight delay in displaying the document, and the need to distribute a couple of extra files with the web page (pmathml.xsl and pmathmlcss.xsl). For more details please see http://www.w3.org/math/xsl. Valid file extensions are .xht, .xhtml, and .xml. Default is .xht.

This dialog appears the first time you insert an equation number into a document, if you have not already inserted a chapter/section break. An equation chapter/section break lets you define the chapter and/or section number part of an equation number, for example the 2 in the equation number (2.3).

If you click OK, an equation section break will be inserted at the start of the document, using the numbers you specify, and then an equation number will be inserted at the current location of the insertion point. If you prefer, you can click Cancel and then insert an equation section break at the location you desire. In this case you will have to choose the Insert Equation Number command again.

This dialog will not appear once you have inserted an equation section break, or if you have selected an equation number format that does not include a chapter or section number. Check the Always start new documents with chapter 1, section 1 option if you do not wish to see this dialog the first time you insert an equation number into a document. You can also control whether this dialog appears by checking or clearing the Warn when inserting first equation number checkbox in the Format Equation Numbers dialog.

This dialog lets you set the format for new equation numbers or change the format of existing equation numbers.

Number Format

This section lets you specify a number format. The Simple Format option lets you pick the enclosure, separator and format of each part of the number. All parts are optional; use the checkbox next to each part to include/exclude it from the number. The Preview shows you an example using your format.

If you want more control over the format you can choose the Advanced Format option, and then enter the desired format in the Format edit box. All characters in the format are used literally, except for the terms #C, #S and #E. These correspond to the Chapter, Section and Equation parts of the number (and can be in any order). Each of these terms must be followed by another character indicating the numeric format; these correspond to the choices in the menus and are as follows:

Thus the format (#C1:#S1-#Ei) would generate the number (1:1-i). The Preview updates as you make changes to the format. A useful tip is to use the Simple Format option to get the format as close as possible to the desired format, then choose the Advanced Format option and make the final changes.

Change the equation number format for

Options in this section control which equation numbers are affected by the settings in this dialog. Choose New equation numbers to affect new equation numbers created with the Insert Equation Number command. Choose Current selection or Whole document to update existing equation numbers.

Options

Whenever you insert an equation number or an equation reference into a document, all of the existing equation numbers and references are updated so that the numbering sequences are correct. Typically this operation doesn't take very long, but if you are running on a slower computer, or you are working on a large document, then this process may start taking a while. If so, you can turn off this option, which prevents the update from automatically taking place.

The first time an equation number is inserted into a document, the document is checked to make sure it contains an initial chapter/section break. If it doesn't, the default behavior is to present a dialog asking for the starting chapter and section numbers. If you uncheck this option, starting values of 1 will be inserted without the dialog appearing.

When an equation reference is inserted into a document, the default behavior is to present a dialog that reminds you to double-click an equation number to actually insert the reference. If you uncheck this option, this dialog will no longer appear.

Check this option if you want to use the current format as the default for all new documents. The first time you insert an equation number into a new document, the format is saved with the document. This means that the default format only affects documents that haven't had equation numbers inserted.

This dialog appears when you insert an equation reference using the Insert Equation Reference command on the MathType 7 Menu, MathType 7 Toolbar, or the MathType 7 Tab in Word 2007 and later.

To insert an equation reference at the current location of the insertion point, click OK and then double-click the equation number that you wish to reference. You can scroll the document to bring the desired equation number into view if necessary. After double-clicking an equation number, the document will scroll back to the location where the equation reference was inserted.

If you are inserting references that aren't very close to the original equations, you can avoid a lot of scrolling backwards and forwards by splitting the Word window into two panes. Then you can insert the references in one pane, and double-click the equation numbers in the other.

Check the Don't show me this again option if you do not wish to see this dialog every time you insert an equation reference. You can also control whether this dialog appears by checking or clearing the Alert when inserting equation references checkbox in the Format Equation Numbers dialog.

This dialog allows you to insert a chapter/section break, which defines the chapter and/or section numbers for this portion of the document. These numbers will be displayed in all equation numbers up to the next chapter/section break. The equation number format in use determines the actual display, e.g., whether the Chapter number is displayed.

The break simply resets the chapter and/or section number. If your document doesn't contain multiple chapters then ignore the chapter portion of the dialog. If your document contains multiple chapters and/or multiple sections, you'll normally want to increment the numbers, as described below. And when you start a new chapter, you'll usually want to reset the section number back to 1.

Chapter

Choose the New Chapter option to define the chapter number. Once selected, you can choose the Next chapter number option to increment the chapter number by 1, or choose the Chapter number option and enter the desired number. If you aren't using chapters and chapter numbers, you can ignore this option and leave it turned off.

Section

These options work similarly to the chapter options. Choose the Next section number option to increment the section number by 1, or choose the Section number option and enter the desired number (or letter) in the box provided.

This dialog allows you to change the chapter and/or section number for the portion of the document containing the insertion point. As an aid, the chapter/section break that indicates the beginning of the section will be selected and, if necessary, the document will be scrolled to bring the break into view.

This dialog is identical to the Insert Chapter/Section Break dialog, with the addition of a Delete button. The dialog's options reflect the break's chapter and section number values.

Chapter

Choose the New Chapter option to define the chapter number. Once selected, you can choose the Next chapter number option to increment the chapter number by 1, or choose the Chapter number option and enter the desired number. If you aren't using chapters and chapter numbers, you can ignore this option and leave it unchecked.

Section

These options work similarly to the chapter options. Choose the Next section number option to increment the section number by 1, or choose the Section number option and enter the desired number (or letter) in the box provided.

Delete

Click this button to remove the selected chapter/section break, effectively merging the current chapter/section with the previous one (if one exists).

Use this dialog to set and/or view the equation preferences (styles, sizes, and spacing settings) used for new equations you insert into the current document. The preferences are used only for equations inserted using the commands on the MathType tab in Word's ribbon.

MathType's 'New Equation' preferences

Choose this option to use MathType 7 new equation preferences each time you insert a new equation, instead of the equation preferences (if any) of the current document.

This document's equation preferences

Choose this option to use equation preferences in the current document when you insert a new equation. If you have not yet set these preferences, the Load Preferences dialog will be displayed (see Load from MathType 7 Preference File… below), allowing you to set them.

Load from MathType 7 Preference File…

Click this button to set the equation preferences using a MathType 7 preference file previously created using MathType 7 Save Equation Preferences dialog.

Preview…

Click this button to view the preferences that will be used for new equations. See the Preview Preferences dialog.

This dialog displays a list of equation preferences. The preferences are displayed as a list of items and values, as set using MathType Define Styles, Define Sizes, and Define Spacing dialogs.

This dialog allows you to change the formatting of all MathType 7 Equation Editor, and Word EQ field equations in the chosen range. It applies the equation preferences (styles, sizes, spacing) you choose to all equations in the current selection or the entire document.

Note that Equation Editor equations and Word EQ fields will be converted to MathType 7 equation objects by this operation. If you do not want this to happen, you must choose a range that omits them.

Format equations using preferences from:

Use this section to select how you want the equations to look by selecting equation preferences that will be used in the formatting operation.

Range

These options allow you to choose the range within the document in which equations will be formatted: Whole document will format all equations in the document, while Current selection will only format those equations in the current selection.

The Convert Equations dialog is used to convert equations in your document between various equation types. This is useful, for example, when you want to convert some or all of the Equation Editor equations in a Word document into MathType 7 equations, or to convert graphic equations into a text-based language, such as TeX or MathML, for which there is a MathType 7 translator available.

Equation types to convert:

Only the equation types checked in this group will be converted. The equation types that can be converted are:

You must select at least one equation type, or no equations will be converted.

Range

These options allow you to choose the range within the document in which equations will be converted: Whole document will convert all equations in the document, while Current selection will only convert those equations in the current selection.

Prompt before converting each equation

Check this option to be prompted before each equation is converted. This gives you an opportunity to skip equations you do not want to convert.

Convert equations to

Options in this section allow you to specify the type of equation to which to convert.

The other options in this section allow you to choose the translator and to determine whether MathType 7 internal data gets included in the translation. If you convert equations to text using one of the translators, and think you might want to convert them to another format in the future, turn on the Include translator name as a comment and Include MathType 7 data as a comment options. See the Cut and Copy Preferences Dialog for more details.

Convert

Click this button to convert all equations that match the given criteria.

This dialog allows you to export the MathType 7 (and Equation Editor) equations in your Word document to individual graphics files. This can be useful when importing a Word document into a desktop publishing application.

Export To

You can type in the name and location of the folder into which you want to export the equation files, or you can choose an existing location using the Browse… button.

If you're continually exporting files to the same folder, it can be useful to have it cleaned out before the export begins. The Delete all files of same type in folder option is provided for this purpose. However, be careful that you've chosen the correct folder or you may delete files you didn't mean to delete!

File Format

This section lets you choose a File type, a File name pattern, and the First number with which to begin numbering files. The number gets incremented for each exported equation, and inserted into the file name in place of the # characters in the pattern. For example, with the pattern Eqn### and a starting value of 5, the first EPS file exported will be Eqn005.eps, then Eqn006.eps and so on. Using multiple # characters helps in making all file names the same minimum length, which causes them to display in the correct sequence when sorted. Select Replace equation with file name to replace each equation with its filename enclosed in double angle brackets, e.g., <<Eqn005.eps>>.

Range

These options allow you to choose the range within the document from which equations will be exported: Whole document will export all equations in the document, while Current selection will only export those equations in the current selection.

This dialog allows you to convert a Word document to a web page in which the equations display and print properly. Publishing to MathPage using MathML contains additional information about this feature. We strongly recommend that you read it first. It explains the process more fully, and contains many tips for creating great web pages.Publishing to MathPage using MathML

Document

This section lets you set the Title of the web page and its File Name. Display in default browser will open the generated page in your default Web browser after the generation process has completed.

Equations

In this section you can choose how equations will be represented in the web page: either as GIF images or using MathML.

If you choose Use images (GIFs), a set of GIF files is created for every equation (and some symbols). When the page is viewed in a browser, dynamic HTML is used to select the appropriate image depending on the resolution of the monitor. This makes the size of the equation more closely match the size of the surrounding text. A high-resolution image is used when the page is printed, again making the equation match the rest of the document. You can also choose to use our MathZoom technology, which zooms (magnifies) equations when you click on them, allowing you to see clearly subscripts, superscripts, hats and primes.

Equations can also be represented as MathML. MathML is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specified language for expressing mathematics (for more details visit their website at http://www.w3.org/math). There are several different ways it can be used, depending upon the browser and/or plug-in that you and your audience are using. When you select MathML using, the dialog contains a list of MathML "targets" from which you can choose. A page generated for a given MathML target may not display properly when viewed in another browser or without the required plug-in being installed.

Target Browser

In this section, you can choose the target browser if you're using GIFs. If you're using MathML, there is no option to change it. For MathML, the selection defaults to All browsers unless you choose the "IE Behavior" option. Some browsers can display many symbols correctly as characters in the document, while other browsers require GIF images to be used for some symbols. If you're sure the audience for your pages will only be using Internet Explorer 6 and newer for Windows, select this choice as the page will download slightly faster. Otherwise choose the All browsers option. If you're using MathML, the proper button for Target Browser will be automatically selected, depending on the MathML target you chose.

Use settings as defaults

Select this item to use the selected settings the first time Export to MathPage is used on any documents in the future. If Export to MathPage has already been used on a document, its previous settings will display and not these defaults.

The MathType 7 Options dialog gives you control over how MathML is pasted into a Word document. Launch this dialog from the dialog box launcher (Windows) or the MathType 7 Options command (Mac) in the MathType 7 group of the MathType 7 tab in Word 2016 for Mac, or the MathType 7 menu in Word 2011 for Mac.

Source of MathML

The choices you make on this dialog are active regardless of the source of the MathML. You may have copied MathML from a website, created a handwritten equation in the Windows Math Input Panel (MIP), or you may have chosen a MathML translator in MathType and copied an equation. Each of these actions will place MathML on the clipboard, which is then handled in one of two ways, depending on your choice on the MathType 7 Options dialog

When you paste MathML into Word or click the Insert button on the MIP, MathType creates a MathType 7 equation from the MathML and places it at the insertion point in Word.

When you choose this option, MathType will create an OMML equation at the insertion point in Word upon MathML paste or clicking Insert in the MIP.

After choosing this option, MathType will display the MathType Paste dialog each time you attempt to insert MathML into Word.MathType Paste dialog

Reset all "Don't show me this again" options

This checkbox is used to reset three settings:

If the Windows clipboard contains MathML and you attempt to paste it into a Word 2007 or later document, this dialog will appear unless...

Create a MathType equation

When you paste MathML into Word or click the Insert button on the MIP, MathType creates a MathType 7 equation from the MathML and places it at the insertion point in Word.

Create an OMML equation

When you choose this option, MathType will create an OMML equation at the insertion point in Word upon MathML paste or clicking Insert in the MIP.

Remember my choice

If you check this box, the MathType 7 Paste dialog will not appear in the future when you paste MathML. To reinstate the behavior of the dialog appearing for each MathML paste, click the dialog launcher in the MathType group on the Ribbon.