visio 2010 equations?

Question

Greetings,

Hope you are doing well.

I am looking for a way to insert equations efficiently into Visio 2010. I found out Visio 2010 does not offer equation editing the same way it is available in Word 2010.

My ideas:
1) Write my equations in Word 2010 and copy paste into Visio 2010; however, I have been unable to
paste successfuly to certain restrictions...
2) Write my equations in Word 2010 and take snapshots using the ctrl+s feature from onenote; then paste the image into visio; con: unefficient since it doesn't respect the 3rd point mentioned below
3) Write my equations directly into visio but I have not successful at finding a way to do this and output well formated text


Very important keys:
Since I will be doing this often, I am trying to figure out the most efficient way of doing the following:
1) I am looking for a very efficient way of having equations in Visio 2010
2) I would also like to modify these equations easily
3) Ultimately, I would like to modify the equations once and have the visio corresponding equation changed as well

For any of you who have experience in this, I reach out to you for your help :) if you have only part of the solution, please do not hesitate to post your ideas! ideas are generated from several bright minds... :)

Sincerely Yours.
KC

Answer 1

I think you have almost got it with the pasting option, but rather than paste the text, why not paste a screen captured shot of the equation.

to do this, press Print Screen button, this will capture the screen to clip board and you can then edit the image with mspaint, and then having made your image, paste that into Visio.



I know that sounds a bit of a faff but once you have the equation image, you can save this to a file for use as and when you need it. Perhaps consider creating an Equation Image folder into which your images can be dumped for later use. Keep the original in word in case it needs to be amended.

Answer 2

You can use Microsoft Equation 3.0 as follows:

go to Insert tab, in the Text section select object

from Insert object appearing window chose Microsoft Equation 3.0

Answer 3

copy equation in word 2010 first and paste it as picture in the same word document, now copy this picture and paste it in visio