Copying from MathCAD to Word
Copying from MathCAD to Word
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I am trying to copy from MathCAD 15 to Microsoft Word. No matter what type of paste I try (be it Source Formatting, Merge Formatting, or Picture)....something gets screwed up. Picture probably gets me the closest to what I want....but there is still something off.
RE: Copying from MathCAD to Word
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RE: Copying from MathCAD to Word
Maybe MathCAD15 files (.mcd) will still import correctly as an object.
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TTFN (ta ta for now)
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RE: Copying from MathCAD to Word
TTFN (ta ta for now)
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RE: Copying from MathCAD to Word
RE: Copying from MathCAD to Word
With Mathcad - compile your formula / equation & then activate Snagit / Select the area that gets loaded onto the clipboard.
I also have the Snagit editor open up immediately after the "copy" so i can "Fine-tune" the image / crop / place arrows / add circles / etc
- If i perform any change during the Snagit editor phase .. I just "copy" else i just close the editor.
- the i paste the image into word as an "image" ..
- I do not Link the image / nor import / nor attach / - just the basic paste. - not worth the effort to rectify when something fails. I keep a Mathcad file alongside the word document - so should i have to revise .. its a very simple case of cut & paste again.
.. too easy ..
RE: Copying from MathCAD to Word
That ended in about 2003. MS Word got a top-to-bottom redesign to fit it better into Office (it used to be sold separately). I've never been able to work the two together ever since. This change broke many of my old Mathcad reports, which is why I remember these details.
My workflow with both MC and Smath is Snip/Snagit and insert as a plain graphic, as edmeister and SWComposites describe. In MS Word you can sharpen up the graphic a bit so that it doesn't look so blurry. Note that sharpening an image increases the size of the MS Word file so if you have dozens of Mathcad pages to insert as graphics you're already in the multi-megabyte territory.
RE: Copying from MathCAD to Word
RE: Copying from MathCAD to Word
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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates
-Dik
RE: Copying from MathCAD to Word
In Mathcad 13 I could export worksheets in .rtf format. The rtf needs to be messaged at bit.
THe problem I had with this is that the pictures were of a fixed size and couldn't be easily expanded or contracted to fit in the magazine layout. This is anther reason I switched to python. I could generate .svg files that can be resized and still look good. However I then wrote almost all the text in word.
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That, and the fact that Mathsoft never upgraded their OCX utility to match, because they were probably in the throes of trying to fix Mathcad 12, which was a major FUBAR.
TTFN (ta ta for now)
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RE: Copying from MathCAD to Word
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