Attributes
You can choose from various attributes for Office Math formulas. Some attributes are displayed in the lower part of the Elements pane. These attributes are also listed in the context menu of the Commands window. All attributes not contained in the Elements pane or in the context menu must be typed manually in the Commands window.
To access this command...
Open the context menu in the Commands window - choose Attributes
Choose View - Elements; then on the Elements pane select Attributes from the list box.
The following is a complete list of all attributes available in Office Math. The symbol next to the attribute indicates that it can be accessed through the Elements pane (choose View - Elements) or through the context menu of the Commands window.
In describing the following attribute functions, the letter "a" in the icon refers to the placeholder that you would like to assign to the respective attribute. You can substitute this character with any other character that you choose.
Attribute Functions
Acute accent
Inserts a placeholder with an acute accent. You can also type acute in the Commands window.
Grave accent
Inserts a placeholder with a grave accent (grave). You can also type grave in the Commands window.
Reverse Circumflex
Inserts a placeholder with a reverse circumflex ("check mark") over it. You can also type check in the Commands window.
Breve
Inserts a placeholder with an accent breve. You can also type breve in the Commands window.
Circle
Inserts a placeholder with a circle over it. You can also type circle in the Commands window.
Vector arrow
Inserts a placeholder with a vector arrow. You can also type vec in the Commands window.
Harpoon arrow
Insert a placeholder with a harpoon arrow. You can also type harpoon in the Commands window.
Tilde
Inserts a placeholder with a tilde. You can also type tilde in the Commands window.
Circumflex
Inserts a placeholder with a circumflex ("hat"). You can also directly enter hat in the Commands window.
Line above (bar)
Inserts a line ("bar") above a placeholder . You can also type bar in the Commands window.
Dot
Inserts a placeholder with a dot over it. You can also type dot in the Commands window.
Wide vector arrow
Inserts a wide vector arrow with a placeholder. You can also type widevec in the Commands window.
Wide harpoon arrow
Inserts a wide harpoon arrow with a placeholder. You can also type wideharpoon in the Commands window.
Wide tilde
Inserts a wide tilde with a placeholder. You can also type widetilde directly in the Commands window.
Wide circumflex
Inserts a wide circumflex ("hat") with a placeholder. You can also type widehat in the Commands window.
Double dot
Inserts a placeholder with two dots over it. You can also directly enter ddot in the Commands window.
Line over
Inserts a line over a placeholder. You can also type overline in the Commands window. The line adjusts itself to correct length.
Line below
Inserts a line below a placeholder. You can also type underline in the Commands window.
Line through (overstrike)
Inserts a placeholder with a line (or overstrike) through it. You can also type overstrike in the Commands window.
Triple dot
Inserts three dots over a placeholder. You can also type dddot in the Commands window.
Transparent
Inserts a placeholder for a transparent character. This character takes up the space of "a" but does not display it. You can also type phantom in the Commands window.
Bold font
Inserts a placeholder with bold formatting. You can also type bold in the Commands window.
Italic font
Inserts a placeholder with italic formatting. You can also type ital or italic in the Commands window.
Resize
Inserts a command for modifying the font size with two placeholders. The first placeholder refers to the font size (for example, 12) and the second one contains the text. For proper structure, insert a space between the values. You can also directly enter size in the Commands window.
Change font
Inserts a command for changing the font type, with two placeholders. Replace the first placeholder with the name of one of the custom fonts, Serif, Sans or Fixed. Replace the second placeholder with the text. You can also type font directly in the Commands window.
Use the colour command to change the colour of your formula. Type colour, then type the colour name (the available colours are white, black, cyan, magenta, red, blue, green and yellow), then the formula, character or character sequence. The input colour green size 20 a results in a green letter "a" with a font size of 20.
The nbold and nitalic commands remove the bold or italic default fonts of formula components. For example, remove italics from the x in the formula 5 x + 3=28 by typing nitalic before the x as in 5 nitalic x + 3=28.
The attributes "acute", "bar", "breve", "check", "circle", "dot", "ddot", "dddot", "grave", "hat", "tilde" and "vec" have fixed sizes. Their width or length cannot be adjusted when positioned over a long symbol.
For size changes you can use size n, +n, -n, *n and /n , where n is a placeholder. This method is useful when the base size of the formula is subject to change. The commands size +n and size -n change point size, and size *n and size /n change the size by a percentage. For example, the command size *1.17 increases the size of a character by exactly 17%.
Note that some entries require spaces for the correct structure. This is especially true when you specify attributes with fixed values instead of placeholders.
For more information about formatting in Office Math, see Brackets and Grouping.
Information on attributes, indices and exponents, and scaling can help you structure your documents more efficiently.