Word 2008: Equations turned into pictures

[ta...@officeformac.com]

Hello. I'm really annoyed right now. I have a document (saved as .docx) with many equations written with Equation Editor. Every time I reopened it, the equations were blurry, but this could be fixed by double-clicking and closing each equation.

However, now the equations have turned into pictures (in the blurry state), and I can't edit the equations. I have no idea how this happened. Does anyone have answers?

Thanks.

[John McGhie]

You may have inadvertently saved the document back as a .doc file (different
file format, doesn't support the new equation format).

If you are lucky, it will have saved in "compatibility mode", in which case,
the original equation code is still in the document.

Re-save the file again as a .docx and try. All being well, the equations
should be editable again. Sadly, confidence is "low".

Before giving up, try the document in Windows Word 2007. That uses the new
equation format, and may be able to rescue them for you.

When you get them back into Mac Word, try to ignore the blurry equations.
That's a bug. We are expecting an update around the middle of March that
may fix this for you.

Hope this helps

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[Matt Centurión [MSFT]]

Do you remember what you may have done (like John mentions.. Saving as .doc,
or applying formatting) around the time that the equations no longer were
editable?

Do you have a previous copy of the document where the equations are
editable?

If the document isn't confidential feel free to send it/them to me and we
can try to take a look. (just remove the "nospammy." from my address)

Thx,

Matt
MacOffice Testing
Microsoft

Date: 2/28/08 10:19 AM / From: "ta...@officeformac.com"
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[samfi...@googlemail.com]

On Mar 11, 10:39 pm, "Matt Centurión [MSFT]"

I have experienced this problem also,

Is a solution available yet? Thanks

[Matt Centurión [MSFT]]

For now if you have blurry equations try double-clicking them to restore
thm,then saving the document as .doc instead of .docx. This should maintain
the state of the equations better until a fix is found.

Matt
MacOffice Testing
Microsoft

Date: 4/2/08 9:59 AM / From: "samfi...@googlemail.com"
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