mathematical – Ravi Shankar

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.

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

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)”.

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

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

Word users can use the insert equation option to add mathematical equation to a document. Similarly to add any Math’s Symbol, you can use Insert –> Symbol feature. This is quite useful when you are preparing Mathematics Questionnaire using Word 2010.

For example, if you want to add non equality operation, then navigate to Insert menu, click the Symbols option and pick non equality symbol from the drop down list.

If you can not find the symbols in the above list then you can click the More Symbols menu option and pick the extended list.

Another alternative way to add mathematic operation in a Word document is by using the insert Object option. Navigate to Text section under Insert menu and click the Object menu option.