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How to enable insert equation in Word

October 19, 2015 By Ravi Shankar 8 Comments

Word 2016, 2013 and 2010 provide users with the option to insert mathematical equations in a document. This is quite useful when you are preparing a word document with mathematical questions. Users can insert equations using the option available as part of the Office Ribbon’s Insert menu.

Word 2010 Insert Equation

But when you open an existing document created in Word 2003, the equation menu option would be disabled.

Equation Diasabled

This is because this feature is available only for document with extension as .docx and not doc. And to resolve this problem all you need to do is to resave the document in Word 2010 file format. Please make sure to pick the value for Save as type drop down as “Word Document (*.docx)”.

File Save as type .docx

The following confirmation message would be displayed, click OK to continue with converting the document.

image

By this way you can enable the insert equation option in a Word document.

Filed Under: MS Office, Word 2010, Word 2013, Word 2016 Tagged With: Enable, insert equation, mathematical, Word 2003, Word 2010

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  1. M.Aldushy says

    October 8, 2013 at 2:57 pm

    Thanks a lot!…that was helpful

    Reply
    • Chetan says

      October 28, 2020 at 7:54 am

      Thank u

      Reply
  2. kithi says

    February 5, 2015 at 12:17 am

    thanks bro

    Reply
  3. cyrus says

    January 9, 2016 at 6:00 am

    thanks
    It really helped

    Reply
  4. Raj says

    February 6, 2017 at 2:10 am

    Thank you so much.

    Reply
  5. Teotino Soares says

    April 20, 2019 at 5:47 am

    Thx for help

    Reply
  6. mahdi says

    January 9, 2020 at 8:53 am

    very good

    Reply
  7. leo says

    November 23, 2021 at 11:17 pm

    I laugh a lot, my friend, I have spent hours fighting with MS Word because suddenly I can not write any equation because the equation icon was deactivated. Neither Microsoft support couldn’t tell me a solution for this issue.
    Thank you so much, hat off!

    Reply

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