Thanks a lot! At 3:57 you can see the context menu. It shows "Align at =", and thats a short cut for doing it in one click after you have marked all the lines in the equation :)
Thanks for this, very helpful! A tip on the paragraphs portion of your tutorial: Turning on the Paragraph characters is helpful immensely for this allowing you to visibly see whether the equations are in the same paragraph or not. To enable/disable this: Shortcut = Ctrl+*, the * must be with shift+8 or equivalent, it didn't seem to work with the num-pad. Or you can turn it on with the paragraph symbol on the ribbon which is the "backward P" looking symbol visible in the video just to the left and up of the "Normal" Style setting. PS when you turn this on, it displays a line showing the alignment for the = character.
The fastest way is to highlight the whole paragraph and right click it will give you and option to align at the equal sign in windows 2013 and 2016. Thank you...
Hi Jens - it could be a couple of things. You might have pressed instead of at the end of the first line. The ONLY thing separating the lines of your equation should be , nothing else. No spaces, no tabs, no . Or if you're in powerpoint rather than word, you'll find "align at this character" under " math options". I hope that helps!
It was a totally different reason. The document had change tracking enabled. When I disabled this and accepted all changes, the menu items appeared. Seems to be a bug.
Thanks for sharing that Ian: very useful. I've been wondering how to do that for ages! Just wondering if you have experienced loss of italicisation formatting within equations and have a fix for it? When I type y=f(x) with the x and y italicised and the f correctly set as non-italic, upon saving and re-opening the document in Word, the italicisations get disrupted in unpredictable ways. Any ideas?
Is it possible to align on a character that's not an equals sign? I tried the above with a decimal point, but the menu option "Align at this character" is not present.
I confirm. This alignment function is very limited. It seems like a quick hack job done by some unqualified developers in Microsoft. i mean, in a formula block, we could have several alignment points. And we should be allowed to align to anything we like. Instead of "Align at this character", a "Insert an alignment point" would be a LOT better and logical. For you issue, I'm afraid the only workaround would be to use the "bullet" (the multiplication dot). FYI, the fomula editor in OpenOffice / LibreOffice is LOT better.
Each line needs to have only equation on it. If there are any other characters on that line (even a space or a tab) on the line, it stuffs up the alignment feature.
Works well for MS Word equation editor, but unfortunately not for the powerpoint equation editor. Why oh why do MS not have the same functionality for equation editors in the same Office suite (2016) ?????
Hi Vitas, thanks for your comment! It does work in Powerpoint, but the "Align at this Character" command is a sub-menu option under "Math Options". ie: right click to the left of the = sign, then choose "Math Options" then "Align at this Character". (I'm using Powerpoint 2013 - I don't know about other versions). But yes, it would be nice if Microsoft made things more consistent across their products!
Thank you very much! If the lines of the formula contain multiple equal signs, is there a way to align along each of them? E.g.: A = b + c = 3 D = e + f + g = 5
Hi Md, in MS-Word, type this sequence of characters: = gets you into equation editor mode a^(2+n) this is your formula once you press enter (or spacebar) the equation is "tidied up" as you would expect. Hope that helps!
It is very useful skill. Thank you for explaining these so well with great voice and clear resolution.
You're most welcome Sam. I'm always happy when it helps someone. Thanks for taking time to drop me a comment.
Thanks a lot! At 3:57 you can see the context menu. It shows "Align at =", and thats a short cut for doing it in one click after you have marked all the lines in the equation :)
x = +- 4
OK, you are correct. :-)
Thanks for this, very helpful! A tip on the paragraphs portion of your tutorial: Turning on the Paragraph characters is helpful immensely for this allowing you to visibly see whether the equations are in the same paragraph or not. To enable/disable this: Shortcut = Ctrl+*, the * must be with shift+8 or equivalent, it didn't seem to work with the num-pad. Or you can turn it on with the paragraph symbol on the ribbon which is the "backward P" looking symbol visible in the video just to the left and up of the "Normal" Style setting.
PS when you turn this on, it displays a line showing the alignment for the = character.
Thank you very much. I'm a maths student and I was bothering with this for a lot time. Thank you very very much :)
Thanks man. I never understood how to use the "align at the character" function. Now I know ;). You video was very helpful.
I have been looking for this for quite long time, thanks.
So glad it was helpful :-)
The fastest way is to highlight the whole paragraph and right click it will give you and option to align at the equal sign in windows 2013 and 2016. Thank you...
3:56 This is visible at this point in the video. I was going to mention this as well.
Thank you !
Thank you so much! Note for others, this also applies in Excel. I had to redo the Shift + Enter thing a few times before I got it to work though.
Thanks for this video, Ian. Very clear explanation.
You can save yourself time by typing '&' before the equals sign instead of opening the context menu and selecting "Align character"
Instruction starts at 1:20.
I was looking for this for a long time, thanks!
Thanks... I've been fiddling with equations for much too long
Thank you Mr. Thompson
I bow before your greatness.
thank you for sharing your time, it was very helpful
thank you very much for this sir🙏 makes my equation tidy
Ah this is fucking awesome. I love how it sometimes gives you the option to 'align at this symbol' and sometimes not at all! That's so helpful.
actually it just basically never fucking works at all, no option to 'align at this character', thanks for giving me fucking migraine
this is great, fantastic, brilliant thanks.
Thanks Mr. Thompson
I did it exactly as you but I am missing the "Align at this character" menu option. What am I doing wrong?
Hi Jens - it could be a couple of things. You might have pressed instead of at the end of the first line. The ONLY thing separating the lines of your equation should be , nothing else. No spaces, no tabs, no .
Or if you're in powerpoint rather than word, you'll find "align at this character" under " math options". I hope that helps!
It was a totally different reason. The document had change tracking enabled. When I disabled this and accepted all changes, the menu items appeared. Seems to be a bug.
Jens Rabe - well spotted! Good to hear it's working now.
@@ianthompson4882 I was also faced the same problem.. but now I learned it.. Thankyou so much.👍
Thanks for sharing that Ian: very useful. I've been wondering how to do that for ages!
Just wondering if you have experienced loss of italicisation formatting within equations and have a fix for it?
When I type y=f(x) with the x and y italicised and the f correctly set as non-italic, upon saving and re-opening the document in Word, the italicisations get disrupted in unpredictable ways. Any ideas?
It's actually x = +- 4 :)
Mind. Blown. Thank you!
Very nice....I was looking for new line but got something much more.... * * * * *😋💯💥 will save a lot of time later!!
I also see its possible to do carry on regardless and align them all at the end using align at this character in Word 2016 anyway...
Is it possible to align on a character that's not an equals sign? I tried the above with a decimal point, but the menu option "Align at this character" is not present.
I confirm. This alignment function is very limited. It seems like a quick hack job done by some unqualified developers in Microsoft. i mean, in a formula block, we could have several alignment points. And we should be allowed to align to anything we like.
Instead of "Align at this character", a "Insert an alignment point" would be a LOT better and logical.
For you issue, I'm afraid the only workaround would be to use the "bullet" (the multiplication dot).
FYI, the fomula editor in OpenOffice / LibreOffice is LOT better.
Very good stuff! Thanks a lot!
Any changes recently? It does not show the "align" when I right-click!
Each line needs to have only equation on it. If there are any other characters on that line (even a space or a tab) on the line, it stuffs up the alignment feature.
Works well for MS Word equation editor, but unfortunately not for the powerpoint equation editor.
Why oh why do MS not have the same functionality for equation editors in the same Office suite (2016) ?????
Hi Vitas, thanks for your comment!
It does work in Powerpoint, but the "Align at this Character" command is a sub-menu option under "Math Options". ie: right click to the left of the = sign, then choose "Math Options" then "Align at this Character". (I'm using Powerpoint 2013 - I don't know about other versions). But yes, it would be nice if Microsoft made things more consistent across their products!
Ah yes, you're right Ian, that works in powerpoint (2016). Thanks!
Thank you very much! If the lines of the formula contain multiple equal signs, is there a way to align along each of them?
E.g.:
A = b + c = 3
D = e + f + g = 5
I think the best way to do that would be to use a table with two columns (with invisible borders)
Good idea, thank you! I hope the ability to do it without a table will be added in a future version.
Also as you are quite a guru do you know what Professional, Linear, All Professional and All Linear do? Thanks I'll google but just for the chat...
tnx a lot lan thompson. now i want to know how can i write a to the power two plus n??????
Hi Md, in MS-Word, type this sequence of characters:
= gets you into equation editor mode
a^(2+n) this is your formula
once you press enter (or spacebar) the equation is "tidied up" as you would expect.
Hope that helps!
Any way to align at two points? It seems the answer is "No".
but what if i want to disable auto aligning by signs?
Question: Can an equation have more than one equal sign? I was informed no.
For many people it's not a "normal" thing to do when solving an equation. But as a math and science teacher I'm doing this all the time.
Equation numbering doesn't work in a proper way when doing this. How can I work around that?
Useful.. thank you..!!!
Thank you!
Well done, thank you
Thanks mate!
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