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eyemac - 03 Feb 2006 14:40 GMT

I’m running Office 1.1.6 with 10.4.4 and Equation Editor always quits on me.
First I repaired permissions—nothing, then trashed the application and it’s
prefs, still nothing. Finally I did an uninstall and reinstall of Office,
still the same. The Equation Editor icon will appear briefly in dock and
then close with an error message. Any suggestions?

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Elliott Roper - 03 Feb 2006 15:08 GMT

> Iâm running Office 1.1.6 with 10.4.4 and Equation Editor always quits on
> me.
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> still the same. The Equation Editor icon will appear briefly in dock and
> then close with an error message. Any suggestions?

I gave up on it. I use a freeware thing called "equation service" from
http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/EquationService/
It is a bit of a task to install, since you have to drag in the whole
PDFLaTex thing to support it, but then once you have that, it is a
delight.

Of course, once you have LaTeX, you will start asking why you are
bothering with Word, particularly if you are setting mathematics for a
critical audience.

The equation service is a neat halfway house that lets you keep talking
to the corporate jobsworth culture while sneaking up on them with
superior looking maths expressions.

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Michel Bintener - 03 Feb 2006 16:03 GMT

The same thing happened to me after I'd disabled some obscure font (can't
remember which one) in the Font Book, but it took me a while to realise that
this was the cause of the problem. Have you by any chance messed with the
fonts on your system?

On 03.02.06 14:40, in article
2FEFD13B-E190-4F6C-A447-62DE461EEA6C@microsoft.com, "eyemac"

> I¹m running Office 1.1.6 with 10.4.4 and Equation Editor always quits on me.
> First I repaired permissionsnothing, then trashed the application and it¹s
> prefs, still nothing. Finally I did an uninstall and reinstall of Office,
> still the same. The Equation Editor icon will appear briefly in dock and
> then close with an error message. Any suggestions?

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eyemac - 03 Feb 2006 17:09 GMT

Interesting thought, but shouldn’t the uninstall and reinstall take care of
that?

> The same thing happened to me after I'd disabled some obscure font (can't
> remember which one) in the Font Book, but it took me a while to realise that
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> > still the same. The Equation Editor icon will appear briefly in dock and
> > then close with an error message. Any suggestions?

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Michel Bintener - 03 Feb 2006 17:16 GMT

No, not as far as I know. The Office installer will only check if the
required fonts are present, not if they are enabled. I might be wrong with
this assumption, but I guess it's worth a try.

On 03.02.06 17:09, in article
2B24D3A5-32B0-414F-8B1B-401B75AE1E9A@microsoft.com, "eyemac"

> Interesting thought, but shouldn¹t the uninstall and reinstall take care of
> that?
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
>> this was the cause of the problem. Have you by any chance messed with the
>> fonts on your system?

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eyemac - 06 Feb 2006 21:36 GMT

I took your advise, enabled all my fonts and POW it works just fine.

> No, not as far as I know. The Office installer will only check if the
> required fonts are present, not if they are enabled. I might be wrong with
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> >> this was the cause of the problem. Have you by any chance messed with the
> >> fonts on your system?

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