Equation Editor in Microsoft Office and Leopard

Sounds like a fonts issue instead of office. Not sure how to fix it except for clearing out the fonts you dont use regularly. Perhaps if you're using a font thats incorrectly mapped its what's causing these errors. You can manage the fonts in "Font Book" and disable/enable them there.

I am having the same type of problems with Equation Editor using Leopard, where I didn't have these problems with Tiger. If I reboot the computer, the equations look correct for a while and then start changing fonts after a few minutes.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

I am not at my Mac now, but could you figure out which font Equation Editor is using? It may be a font that is not unicode compliant, if that has any impact. Can you change it in preferences of Equation Editor somewhere?

I had this problem. Try removing /Users/<you>/Library/Fonts/MT Extra-1

did the trick for me

I am having the same problem, if I put a ^ over a variable it comes out looking like a square-root sign. I tried removing the MT Extra font with no luck. It erratically and for me unpredictably changes between the right and wrong character as I switch back and forth between equation editor mode and regular mode.

Any other suggestions?

Try going to Style > Define, and change the fonts.

I guess the font for Symbols could cause a problem. On my mac it is set to Symbols, but I cannot tell if that is a good or a bad value.

I am having the same problem. To me, it looks like a screen refresh issue. Delta signs frequently disappear or sometimes become an exclamation mark! A minus sign can become = or # or it simply disappears. Parentheses can become distorted or partially inverted. Frequently refreshing in Word by going a page up and then back can sometimes get the proper equation, but, more often than not, it is messed up. Building equations in text style reduces but does not eliminate the errors. I have the same issues with equation editor in PowerPoint. Never had these problems with OS 10.4. Problems are so severe that I can't use equation editor. In fact, I may not be able to use Office for producing teaching materials for my courses.

The same Word and PowerPoint files whose equations mutate with Leopard behave perfectly on my computer at school running Tiger. That looks like good evidence that the problem is with Leopard. Waiting for an expert to look at this problem.

All the documents that I've made whilst using Word 2004 in Tiger act exactly the same in Leopard. Also, note that MT Extra's installed and there's no conflict. Strongly suggest running Font Book and validating and resolving duplicates.

I have what appears to be the same problem: a file created with Word in MS Office 2004 (in Tiger) containing equations written in Equation Editor, where the equations now appear in corrupted form: minus signs disappear, the greek letter lambda appears as #, although the greek letter mu appears fine. When I double-click the equations they appear correctly in the equation editor window. But embedded in the document they are corrupted and they print with the errors showing on paper.

I emailed the file to someone who has a Windows computer. They can open it fine and print it fine. I downloaded it from my email web browser at home, opened it on my home computer (iMac G5 also running Leopard) and it appears fine and prints fine. So I am no longer sure it's a Leopard issue. But it may be that font files have been changed somehow on my intel MacBook.

Any suggestions? I don't know what Font Book is.

I don't know what Font Book is.

Apple provided app that validates fonts and resolves duplicates. It's in /Applications.

I used "validate font" for Symbol.dfont and found that it had a "minor problem" reported as a duplicate font. However, I didn't know how to reinstall it. So I searched for other articles about font problems and found a macworld article which recommended removing the file ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office Font Cache. I did and restarted the MacBook (after running disk utility).

Hey presto! Everything now works with equations in my word document!

Thanks for your suggestions.

Thanks for the feedback and good find. Good computing.

I found that symbol is fine, but MT extra Plain 001.000 has two minor problems:
(1) 'name'table usability and (2) 'name' table structure. What do I do next?