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Re: MS-WORD: Porting eqns. from Mac ver. 4.0 to PC ver. 5.5

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From: Tom Scavo
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 1991 19:35
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In article <BADRI.91Jan25155110@elysium.sdl.scs.com> badri@sdl.scs.com (Badri Lokanathan) writes:
>I went over the users manual for MS-WORD 5.5 (IBM PC) and found no
>reference to writing equations. Is there any support for equations
>barring the manual entry of symbols (integrals, summation etc.) in
>MS-WORD 5.5 (IBM PC)?
>Do equations written in the meta language of MS-WORD 4.0 (Mac)
>port (in any fashion) to MS-WORD 5.5 for the IBM PC?

I don't know too much about MS Word 5.5 for the PC, but I do know
that Word for Windows has equation formatting capabilities with
syntax virtually identical to that of Word 4.0 for the Mac.  In
fact, Word for Windows feels very much like Word 4.0 overall.

Tom Scavo
scavo@cie.uoregon.edu
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From: scavo@cie.uoregon.edu (Tom Scavo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.ibm.misc
Subject: Re: MS-WORD: Porting eqns. from Mac ver. 4.0 to PC ver. 5.5
Summary: try Word for Windows
Keywords: Word, Word for Windows, equations
Message-ID: <1991Jan27.193512.9623@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 27 Jan 91 19:35:12 GMT
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Reply-To: scavo@cie.uoregon.edu (Tom Scavo)
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