MathType Tips: Creating true inline equations in PowerPoint Creating true inline equations in PowerPoint Applies to: MathType 6 and later for Windows MathType 6 and later for Mac PowerPoint 2013 and later for Windows PowerPoint 2016 for Mac Situation: You're working in PowerPoint and you've been inserting MathType equations and moving them into position every time. If there is inline text that follows the equation, you must add enough space to allow for the equation.
PowerPoint provides a variety of options to give motion to text. PowerPoint text animation draws viewers’ attention to the key points of your presentation and make viewing experience more fun. You can animate a text object on the slide with an entrance, emphasis, exit or motion path effects.
If you add text above the line containing the equation, or if you edit the text, you have to move the equation every time. It would be nice if the equations were truly inline, like in Word, and would flow with the text. Background: PowerPoint doesn't allow for inline objects of any type - drawings, photos, logos, charts, etc. and since MathType equations are 'objects' that are inserted onto the slide, they cannot be inline either. Therefore, the method described here uses MathType, but the equations produced for PowerPoint are not MathType equations; they're ' equations. We do offer one workaround in our article, and that's still a viable option. The method below presents a different solution.
Note: Since PowerPoint 2016 for Mac interacts with MathType in a way quite differently from any of the other versions of PowerPoint covered here, we cover that version separately below. Creating inline equations in PowerPoint for Windows Since PowerPoint does not allow inline objects, which all MathType equations are, we're going to use MathType to create the equation, but the equation that's actually on the PowerPoint slide will be an OMML equation, as described above. Open MathType as a separate application - do not open it by clicking MathType on the MathType tab in PowerPoint. If you're unfamiliar with opening MathType as a separate application, you can get to it through the Windows Start menu. Create the equation in MathType, then select & copy it ('cut' is actually better than 'copy') and paste it onto the slide. Tip: You'll know it's in the right format if you click inside the equation, and you seen the Equation Tools tab on the ribbon:. If you clicked inside the equation, part of it will be shaded.
If you didn't click inside, or if none of it is shaded, click inside and it should look something like this:. Now 'select all'. Easiest way to do that is with the shortcut Ctrl+A. Now it looks like this:. Now copy it - Ctrl+C. At the point in your slide’s text, insert an equation, either from the Insert tab on the ribbon, or with the shortcut Ctrl+=.
It should look something like this:. Don’t click inside the gray area, just paste.
Now you’ve got an OMML equation there – the one you copied from MathType, and it’s already sized correctly. Also, note above that I had a space after the colon and before the equation. I must go back and add a space:. Remember, this is an OMML equation, not a MathType one.
If you need to edit it, you can click inside and edit it directly if you want. If you'd rather use MathType, you can do that too. Click inside, select all, copy, then paste into MathType.
Make your edits, then select & copy it from MathType, then paste in place of the old equation (which should still be selected). Creating inline equations in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac Since PowerPoint does not allow inline objects, nor any objects that are not Microsoft Office objects, we're going to use MathType to create the equation, but the equation that's actually on the PowerPoint slide will be an OMML equation, as described above.
We'll also be using Word 2016, since it is able to create an OMML equation from MathType, and PowerPoint is not. Open MathType from the Applications folder. In MathType's Preferences Cut and Copy Preferences, choose 'MathML 2.0 (namespace attr)' from the MathML or TeX section. Click OK to close the dialog. Open Word 2016. Create the equation in MathType, then select & copy it ('cut' is actually better than 'copy') and paste it into the Word document. Tip: You'll know it's in the right format if you click inside the equation, and you seen the Equation tab on the ribbon:.
Click the blue tab to the left of the equation. If the blue tab isn't showing, click inside the equation, then click the blue tab. This will select the equation:. Copy the equation (again, 'cut' is actually better than 'copy'). At the point in your slide’s text, insert an equation, from the Insert tab on the ribbon. It should look something like this:. Don't click inside the gray area; just paste the equation you copied from Word.
It should look something like this:. Remember, this is an OMML equation, not a MathType one. If you need to edit it:. You can click inside and edit it directly if you want. If you'd rather use MathType, you can do that too. Click inside, select all, copy, then paste into Word 2016 (it will not paste directly into MathType).
Before you paste into MathType, confirm Word's settings are correct for this. In Word's Format menu, choose Equation Options (at the bottom).
I recorded a slideshow presentation from a guest at an Event I organise by setting it to record before he started and then just using the laptop microphone. It has recorded audio for each slide in a time sequence as he went through them. By checking 'Play Narrations' (which took me forever to locate and even the Microsoft phone support person didn't suggest) I can get PPT to play back the presentation but I need it in movie form to mix in FCP/Premier/mimoLive with my camera footage and the cleaner audio (when it exists from the camera that was using a wireless lapel mic for audio). When I use File Export and select either a QT or MP4 movie file the resultant file is just 0 KB of nothing. I also tried recording a slideshow on an older version of Powerpoint on my other laptop (2011 version) and it outputs a low-res movie with a massive big speaker icon in the bottom right corner of every slide for which I recorded narration and yet PPT doesn't export the audio track I recorded in the movie. #fail I could use a capture device on a second laptop and capture the video and audio from the other laptop playing the recording using my BMD UltraStudio MiniRecorder but it's a bit of a hassle given that outputting to.mov is an advertised feature and should take only seconds/minutes to export rather than the hour and a half playing it back will take monopolising both my macs for that time. I'm also concerned that the telephone support person I spoke to wasn't able to escalate this to a engineer or tech who could log it as a bug (at least) or explain to me a workaround or fix.
Would love some help exporting this the easy way, or at the very least a link to the bug report system Microsoft developers must use. I was told how to use the sad face button in top-right corner of a PPT document window to give feedback, but I'm not confident of a) logging it with someone who cares and b) getting any response as it's a general public feedback line. What happened to the MacTopia forums, were they axed or incorporated into this forum? I don't seem to have any of my old questions listed under my account here. Hi Alastair, Currently, we can export the presentation as a video in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac. But When you export your presentation as a video, any embedded media files within the presentation won't be able to play. It’s a known limitation in the current version that the embedded video and audio can’t playback in the exported video yet.
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