Tips & Tricks

If you feel like you know MathType well enough to get by most of the time, but have a nagging feeling you could be a lot more productive if you knew a little more, you've come to the right place! Check back periodically for regular installments of MathType Tips & Tricks—hints from the experts on how to use MathType better and save even more time with it.

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If you are experiencing a problem using MathType, we encourage you to refer to the MathType documentation and to browse through our Technical Support Notices to find solutions to many common issues.

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Some of our best tips come from people just like you—people who use MathType every day and have discovered some really cool, useful ways to use the software. If you have a killer tip you'd like to share with us, please let us know. You don't have to put a lot of effort into writing it up formally; just describe it in plain language, and we'll do the rest. If we publish your tip in a future installment of MathType Tips & Tricks, we'll happily acknowledge your contribution. (We won't publish your email address on the Tip, and we never share your email or other personal data with anyone else.)

Most recent tips:

1. Adding memorable keyboard shortcuts for your most commonly-used symbols and actions
2. Drawing attention to your equations with comments and annotations
3. Group MathType equation objects with drawings and pictures in Microsoft Office
4. Saving common formulas and equations to use later
5. Using MathType to Make Charts, Grids, and Number Lines

Tips by category:

Customizing MathType for you

• Adding memorable keyboard shortcuts for your most commonly-used symbols and actions
• Author equations using only the keyboard
• Changing font size
• Saving common formulas and equations to use later
• Saving preference files

General use

• Adding memorable keyboard shortcuts for your most commonly-used symbols and actions
• Author equations using only the keyboard
• Changing font size
• Changing the font & size of all equations in a Word document
• Copy equations from Wikipedia and other websites into MathType
• Drawing attention to your equations with comments and annotations
• Saving preference files
• Using MathType to Make Charts, Grids, and Number Lines

Elementary math

• Construction of multi-line expressions (i.e., "stacked" math)

Middle school

• Construction of multi-line expressions (i.e., "stacked" math)

PowerPoint

• Changing font size
• Creating a presentation on one computer to show on another
• Drawing attention to your equations with comments and annotations
• Group MathType equation objects with drawings and pictures in Microsoft Office

Word

• Advanced Techniques for Adding Equations and Symbols to Word Documents
• Changing the font & size of all equations in a Word document
• Collaboration: Creating transportable Word documents
• Drawing attention to your equations with comments and annotations
• Group MathType equation objects with drawings and pictures in Microsoft Office