You may find that this leaves too much white space on both sides of the equation.

When all goes well, you'll see Microsoft Word Document Object on the list when you Paste Special.

It seems totally random whether it works or not, so keep trying.

If you see nothing but 'Unformatted text' on the list of choices, cancel, go back to Word and repeat the tripleclick and copy procedure.

Switch to PPT and choose Edit, Paste Special.

Tripleclick within it to select the whole equation, then press Ctrl+C to copy it.

We don't know why PowerPoint didn't inherit it also but you can still use the one in Word to solve your PPT equation problems. Word 2007 got a rather sophisticated built-in equation editor in Office 2007. Workaround 1: Steal the equations from Word If you want some other color, it's a big problem.

Short version: If you're using a white or light background and don't mind equations in black type, you have no problem. In previous versions of PowerPoint, you could use the Recolor command on the Format dialog box to change black to any other color. MathType allows more extensive formatting than the free Equation Editor.Įquation Editor lets you insert equations in black text. Of course MathType works in PPT too, and it adds a MathType tab to the PPT and Word Ribbons. One solution is to put Insert/Object on the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT - it's in the upper left of the PPT window, to the right of the Office icon). In PPT 2003, it was possible to drag an Equation Editor icon to the toolbar, but you can't do that in PPT 2007. Select Microsoft Equation 3.0 from the list. This will bring up the same Insert Object dialog you're used to seeing in pre-2007 versions of Office. To access it in PPT 2007, in the Text group on the Ribbon's Insert tab, click on Object. The same Equation Editor that was in Office 2003 is also in Office 2007, and can be used in both Word and PPT. Here's how it works, from Bob Mathews of Design Science (the authors of Equation Editor and MathType): You need to create or edit equations in PowerPoint 2007 using the supplied Equation Editor 3 software. Using Equation Editor with PowerPoint 2007 Problem

Insert equation in word 2007