Equation editor problems in Office 2004 (OSX)

carkeet · 08-06-2008, 05:02 PM

One of the Professors I support at a local university has an office problem which has me semi-stumped. He is running Office 2004 on OSX 10.4.11 with the latest office 2k4 update (11.5.0). He uses the Equation Editor (insert, object, equation) extensively, but it is doing three strange things we can't seem to fix:

1) when you make a new equation, it mashes the fonts together and seems to turn them into garbage. This stays even if you change the font and size.

Example:
http://i38.tinypic.com/2j27omd.png

2) Sometime when he writes an equation in the equation editor, it looks fine, but upon closing the equation editor window, the equation will be something different (e.g. a hat over an X will show as a Check Mark).

3) If equation objects created using the equation editor are copy and pasted in a document, the document then will be unable to save to disk claiming the "disk is full." (It has 11GB free).

So far I have removed all temporary files, and preferences files, and reinstalled the program, which has shown no improvement to this problem.

08-06-2008, 05:02 PM	#1 (permalink)
carkeet Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1 OS: OSX 10.4.11	Equation editor problems in Office 2004 (OSX) One of the Professors I support at a local university has an office problem which has me semi-stumped. He is running Office 2004 on OSX 10.4.11 with the latest office 2k4 update (11.5.0). He uses the Equation Editor (insert, object, equation) extensively, but it is doing three strange things we can't seem to fix: 1) when you make a new equation, it mashes the fonts together and seems to turn them into garbage. This stays even if you change the font and size. Example: http://i38.tinypic.com/2j27omd.png 2) Sometime when he writes an equation in the equation editor, it looks fine, but upon closing the equation editor window, the equation will be something different (e.g. a hat over an X will show as a Check Mark). 3) If equation objects created using the equation editor are copy and pasted in a document, the document then will be unable to save to disk claiming the "disk is full." (It has 11GB free). So far I have removed all temporary files, and preferences files, and reinstalled the program, which has shown no improvement to this problem.