Vertical alignment was flagged 4 years ago as a missing feature and for professional documentation it is necessary to be able to vertical align when working with tables. No vertical alignment, no font support, how can we encourage users to move away from Word without 101 basic editing support?
Word for Office 365 Word 2019 Word 2016 Word 2013 Word 2010 Word 2007 Alignment determines the appearance and orientation of the edges of the paragraph: left-aligned text, right-aligned text, centered text, or justified text, which is aligned evenly along the left and right margins. For example, in a paragraph that is left-aligned (the most common alignment), the left edge of the paragraph is flush with the left margin. Vertical alignment determines the position of the text within a section of a document relative to the top and bottom margins, and is often used to create a cover page.
I have been searching the Microsoft forums and this problem has plagued every version of Word, both Windows and Mac, for over 6 years, with no solution in sight. MathType support says they sumitted all the details to Microsoft several years ago but to no avail. They say they cannot fix the problem, that it lies within Microsoft Word. I am using Word 2011 on a Mac under El Capitan.
When I create a new Word document, it seems I can insert as many MathType equations as I like without problem. When I reopen a saved document, any new equations I insert are aligned lowered by 17 pts. (The equation box is higher than the text, so I presume it is the text that is lowered.) I can go to the Format Menu, select Font, then Advanced, and under the Position drop-down menu I can select Normal, but it won't stick. It keeps reverting to Lowered by 17 pt. There is just no way to correct it.
This doesn't happen every time I re-open a saved document, but if I re-open and re-edit often enough, eventually this occurs and from then on it continues to occur. For those interested, my work-around is to first type some text beyond the point where the equation will be inserted. When I do, the cursor immediately after the equation is mis-aligned, but the text already typed is correctly aligned, allowing me to continue writing. Hi, Are you using the MathType add-in with Word for Mac 2011?
It is a third-party product helped with equations editing in Word. In my environment, I have no product in Word to test with and do troubleshooting for the front of it.
Based on my experience, it may be the compatibility issue between MathType with Word application in Mac. Currently suggestion, please upgrade both your Word for Mac and MathType to the latest version to have a try. Thanks for your understanding. Regards, Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help, and unmark the answers if they provide no help.
If you have feedback for TechNet Support, contact [email protected]. Winnie Liang TechNet Community Support. John replied that Microsoft fixed the problem in Windows in an update. They have not fixed anything on the Mac side, Office 2011. (MathType doesn't work at all with Mac Office 2016.) Even so, I now only have the problem of mis-alignment intermittently and it only occurs in 'real time', no longer when I re-open a document. I have found some work-arounds that take only a few seconds. If Word text mis-aligns with one or more MathType equations within a line • Highlight the line, including both the text and the equation(s) • From the Format Menu, Select Font and click the Advanced Tab • Change the 'Position' drop-down menu to 'Normal'.
Usually that fixes the problem • If it doesn't entirely fix the problem, try selecting each equation object by itself and repeat this step • If necessary select 'Lowered' rather than 'Normal' and try 3' or 6' or whatever makes it align A related problem is that double-spacing occurs after a line with one or more equations, yet toggling the normal single-space setting has no effect. Here is my fix for that problem.
• Put the cursor on the first double-spaced line, or highlight all such lines (and sometimes even the prior line that has the equation) • Select Paragraph from the Format menu • If spacing 'Before' or 'After' has a non-zero setting, change it to 0. Hi, Are you using the MathType add-in with Word for Mac 2011?