Mathcad to microsoft word

I don’t get your question. You either want to edit the Mathcad in situ, and live with the ability to chagne it, which is what you seem to be wanting, or you paste as a dead image.

TTFN,
Eden

looks like it has to be moved into request topic…

i want paste _linked_ parts of calculations into MS Word. just like i can do it with Excel tables for ex. i don’t want to paste the same parts in word again just after brief edit in mathcad. current problem is how links are handled.

cause i got inccorrect image after almost every mathcad edit or even if result is just several digits larger.

it would be cool to have ability to maintain links using some ‘bookmarks’ not just line numbers. hope one can understand what i’m about…

Perhaps you could post an example. I don’t have any idea what you’re talking about. Mathcad has no line numbers, whatsoever.

I’ve activated Mathcad OLE objects without any problem.

TTFN,
Eden

«looks like it has to be moved into request topic…»
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Request for what ?

Maybe your version of Mathcad and your MS Office don’t work same than it works for us (two collabs replied : no problem). Why don’t you use Power Point instead. I had done some PP presentation using Mathcad 8 Pro. and Office 97, no problem … PP toke Word text, Excel, foreign, images (drawings) and Mathcad sheet or part of. From recollection, double clicking on the Word part did open the Word sheet for editing, clicking on the Mathcad part did open the Mathcad sheet for editing and so on.

I have not tried with Office 2000 Mathcad 11.2a. Like suggested, attach what you have as a Mathcad work sheet, preferably saved 11 for a greater collaboration audience. The full description of your project would help. It does not looks a problem of calculation, rather a publishing problem of imposed conditions «as per the book from publisher» of which you may just have a copy and want to distribute largely for the school or else purpose.

What does the project consists of ?

jmG

>Let’s say i need to create some document in MS Word containing Mathcad calculations. (i can’t just make this document in mathcad, cause its abilities in text formating are very poor atm.)<<br> ____________________________

On the number of work sheet I have done and posted in this collab, my appreciation of the Mathcad text editor is far superior to MS Word ! The problem is that the reader must have Mathcad installed. If you paste a part of Mathcad work sheet in Word «paste as Mathcad document», on double click it will open the Mathcad sheet for live calculations. The other way is to paste that part of the Mathcad into IrfanView, reduce to 256 colors (sometimes less colors, 16) and paste as an image in Word (a dead object for MS Word reader).

Otherwise, not clear what you want.

jmG

Mathcad has only limited OLE support and does not support linking to just a part of a document. When you paste any Mathcad objects as a Mathcad object, you get the entire worksheet.

If all you need in your Word document is numerical results, you could try embeding an Excel component and then linking to a range in that Excel sheet.
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>When you paste any Mathcad objects as a Mathcad object, you get the entire worksheet<.
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Supplementary details for the originator to check:

When you select a part of a Mathcad work sheet (several regions per say), and paste as «Mathcad document» in Excel for instance, the selected regions are pasted in Excel as «Shape object» now with a frame around and reduced. This reduction does not preserve the aspect ratio but when you double click on the Excel «Shape object», it opens the entire work sheet in Mathcad but located around the regions originally selected. The Mathcad work sheet is the original one with a new aspect ratio, or if your prefer in a zoomed mode but very close to the original one.

jmG

ok. i’ll try to be more precise.
see the image. here’s the simpliest example

all the files needed are packed in the archieve. just place all the files on disk C:
I need to create some automated calcumations. I have to use MS Word (cause you can’t automatically make page numbers, formatting, table of contents, picture sigs etc.).
The hardest part is inserting formulas in MS Word. There’s several ways to do it.

1. just type averything in mathtype. long, boring, can be mistakes.
2. automate formula creation in Excel. still boring and time consuming.
3. the best idea is to format calculations in mathcad and then paste in Word. But i don’t want to paste every time i need another review with different input data. i want mathcad region to be libked with Word.
BUt if i insert some line in mathcad — i got the same lines in Word — without formulas i need.
got what i’m aboutb ? What can be done for this case ?

BUt if i insert some line in mathcad — i got the same lines in Word — without formulas i need.
got what i’m aboutb ? What can be done for this case ?

Probably you just have to double click in the mathcad object windows, and scroll this to a proper position. That’s is.

Steen Gro�e

On 9/29/2008 10:00:05 AM, bdfy wrote:
But i
>don’t want to paste every time
>i need another review with
>different input data. i want
>mathcad region to be libked
>with Word.
BUt if i insert
>some line in mathcad — i got
>the same lines in Word —
>without formulas i need.
got
>what i’m aboutb ? What can
>be done for this case ?

No, I don’t get it. You say you want it linked in one sentence, and then, immediately after, you say you don’t. I also don’t have anything that opens RAR files, so, no idea what’s there.

TTFN,
Eden

Probably you just have to double click in the mathcad object windows, and scroll this to a proper position. That’s is.
download the example. it’s not a mathcad region. it’s picture of it embedded in the document.
I’ve reuploaded the exmaple package in this post for those who doesn’t have winrar.
third link is frozen just to show hoy it should look. it’s updatable normally

It’s actually kind of cool, the way that works…

Anyways, I don’t see that there’s anything that can be done. Even pasting a Word link results in changes, albeit not as drastic as Mathcad. Inserting lines makes the pasted object taller, but that appears to be program specific. Excel does what Mathcad does.

TTFN,
Eden

On 9/30/2008 11:12:00 AM, bdfy wrote:
>Probably you just have to
>double click in the mathcad
>object windows, and scroll
>this to a proper position.
>That’s is.
download the
>example. it’s not a mathcad
>region. it’s picture of it
>embedded in the document.
>
I’ve reuploaded the exmaple
>package in this post for those
>who doesn’t have winrar.
>
third link is frozen just to
>show hoy it should look. it’s
>updatable normally

I did before I answered the first time. And my answer is still the same.

Steen Gro�e

[i]I did before I answered the first time. And my answer is still the same.[/i]
1. there’s nothing to scroll
2. it’s vey hard with a lot of links.
I really want linking to be upgraded in future versions, but i wonder how it can be organized ? ideas are welcome

On 9/30/2008 3:45:31 PM, bdfy wrote:
…
>I really want linking to be
>upgraded in future versions,
>but i wonder how it can be
>organized ? ideas are welcome
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I’m afraid your wish will go to the recycle bin as the problem you encounter is Microsoft, not Mathcad. Microsoft is essentially based on their patented «Metafile», a mixture of raster and vector, something like the PDF. The poorest quality from Mathcad to Word (for instance) is pasting an image, which image should be first reduced to GIF format of no more than 256 colors whatever the type of image and for graphic types down to 16, maybe 8.

The next two pasting in Word is «Metafile», slightly better than as an image. The other pasting option is paste as RTF, which allows to edit text in Word, but there is bit of mismatching.

Check if Microsoft has a «publisher» to allow better image pasting.
Check Microsoft forums for publishing tools.

jmG

what my question has to do with image quality ? it’s looking/printing well. the problem is what part of mathcad worksheet goes into Word. but, yes, maybe it can’t be fixed with mathcad only.

>>the problem is what part of mathcad worksheet goes into Word<<

Currently, all of it. You get some control of what part is visible (by scrolling and adjusting the viewing window), but not what goes into Word.
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I am trying to copy the contents of Mathcad 14 worksheet into Ms Word. But after pasting in Ms Word all the contents are converted in totally unorganized shape and distorted.

Can you tell me that how to copy the worksheet contents of Mathcad 14 into Ms Word 2003 in Wysywig style i.e. as it looks in Mathcad 14 it should give the same appearance in Ms Word 2003.

Best regards,
Muhammad

Two things and I won’t argue more :

1. When you paste a foreign application into a Microsoft application, by default it pastes to a reduced «aspect ratio», which aspect ratio can be recovered . It will paste as Microsoft default *GIf (Compuserve, i.e: 256 color levels). 256 color level is way to much for most normal graph.

2. You therefore need a transitional tool like IrfanView that will allow to reduce to 256, 16, 8, 2 ,,, normal graphs at 16 colors is very good but, but at 16 levels that depends upon the size of the object you are reducing.

Conclusion: practice, get more tools
Assumed you paste dead object, not Mathcad document.

jmG