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Mac Forum / Applications / Word / May 2008Are field codes fully supported in Word 2008?
It appears that some EQ field codes are broken in Word 2008. For example, overstrike {EQ \o} works fine, but fraction {EQ \f } results in a line, but no numerator or denominator, and {EQ \r } just gives an ERROR. Is there any documentation on what field codes still work in Word 2008? They are ALL supposed to work. Currently there is no documentation on ANY field codes in Word 2008. Please put in TWO "Send Feedbacks" from the Help menu: one for the field codes, and the other saying that EQ is broken. Cheers On 27/02/08 12:06 PM, in article ee8ee9d.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, > It appears that some EQ field codes are broken in Word 2008. For example, > overstrike {EQ \o} works fine, but fraction {EQ \f } results in a line, but no > numerator or denominator, and {EQ \r } just gives an ERROR. Is there any > documentation on what field codes still work in Word 2008?  SignatureDon't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/ Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer +61 4 1209 1410, mailto:john@mcghie.name McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/ Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia I've just experimented this very issue on my new copy of Word 08. I've got almost all my files with many equations created with EQ fields: they simply appear blank! And if I try to retype them -- it doesn't work either! How's it possible that there is not yet a patch to fix it?! Here's a list of what happens with the EQ fields on my mac: {EQ \A } --> blank {EQ \B } --> creates a blank field that fills the page length {EQ \F } --> creates the fraction, but no numerator nor denominator {EQ \I } --> see \B {EQ \O } , {EQ \S } --> these seem to work {EQ \R } --> gives Error. {EQ \X } --> creates too long vertical lines before and after the character (instead of a square around it) Should I send feedbacks for each one of them? Well, I tested them all, and all the ones you listed are working in Word 2008. However, in your list, you have left the operands off. In most cases, an EQ field will not operate without its operands. If you were doing that in your document, you "would" get errors. In Insert>Field, choose the EQ field, then click Options, then select one of the listed options. At that stage, one line of help text will appear to tell you which operands the command is looking for. You could Send Feedback requesting that these things all be correctly documented in the Help where we expect the documentation to be, and not in some strange mechanism they never bothered to tell us about :-) Or you might simply say nothing and leave this sitting there generating sales for the nice folks at MathType :-) Cheers On 6/05/08 7:33 AM, in article ee8ee9d.1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "GiP" > I've just experimented this very issue on my new copy of Word 08. I've got > almost all my files with many equations created with EQ fields: they simply [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > (instead of a square around it) > Should I send feedbacks for each one of them? SignatureDon't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/ Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac Sydney, Australia. mailto:john@mcghie.name The first thing I thought when I realised EQ fields were not working was that there had been a change in their syntax, so I tried to insert them from menus, just as you described: Insert-->Field --> EQ and then choosing the appropriate option. Here's some fields I tested, complete with operands: { EQ \R(3;4) } - it should generate a radicand, gives error { EQ \F(a;b) } - it should generate a fraction a/b: gives only the fraction line. Maybe they DID change the syntax, but with no documentation how could we get to know? Anyway, you said these fields are working on your Word 2008: how can this be? Could this be related to the machine I'm using? (I'm on a macbook pro 2,33 GHz, 2GB RAM) > Well, I tested them all, and all the ones you listed are working in Word > 2008. [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac > Sydney, Australia. mailto:john@mcghie.name I did send feedback, as instructed in the response to my first post. Since that time, there has been one update, which did not solve the problem. On my Core Duo MacBook Pro, {EQ \f(a,b)} works as described by GIP. Overstrike works properly. When I select the area where the equation is supposed to be, there is clearly something there, but no characters appear. Hi Alan: What we had was a Hotfix, which did not address anything other than critical data-loss issues. Update 12.0.1 was a hotfix. We're expecting Service Release 12.1.0 any minute... It is currently in testing, and it should resolve these issues for you. Cheers On 6/05/08 9:02 PM, in article ee8ee9d.4@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, > I did send feedback, as instructed in the response to my first post. Since > that time, there has been one update, which did not solve the problem. > > On my Core Duo MacBook Pro, {EQ \f(a,b)} works as described by GIP. Overstrike > works properly. When I select the area where the equation is supposed to be, > there is clearly something there, but no characters appear. SignatureDon't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/ Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac Sydney, Australia. mailto:john@mcghie.name Yippee! I just downloaded and installed SP1 (12.1.0). My formulas are now appearing correctly. Thanks! Thanks for the report, and thank god for that! The information we got is not terribly detailed, so I was not certain that SR 12.1.0 was going to resolve ALL the equations issues :-) On 14/05/08 3:16 AM, in article ee8ee9d.9@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, > Yippee! > > I just downloaded and installed SP1 (12.1.0). My formulas are now appearing > correctly. Thanks! SignatureDon't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/ Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:john@mcghie.name The SP1 solved my issues about EQ fields: they all seem to work, now, and even the equations made with MathType are appearing as they should. Only, the SP1 did not show up in Microsoft AutoUpdate, neither automatically nor manually: I had to download it from the mactopia downloads site... :chagrin: > Yippee! > > I just downloaded and installed SP1 (12.1.0). My formulas are now appearing correctly. Thanks! Yes, that's correct: SP 1 will not yet show on Microsoft AutoUpdate. There is an issue with the installer that they are fixing. Until then, the Full File download is the only way to get Service Release 12.1.0. Cheers On 17/05/08 2:47 AM, in article ee8ee9d.11@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "GiP" <gip_@hotmail.com> wrote: > The SP1 solved my issues about EQ fields: they all seem to work, now, and even > the equations made with MathType are appearing as they should. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >> I just downloaded and installed SP1 (12.1.0). My formulas are now appearing >> correctly. Thanks! SignatureDon't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/ Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:john@mcghie.name |
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