Note that you can adjust the size of the font for the equation by simply selecting it and then increasing or decreasing the font size.Īgain, you always want to write out the whole mathematical expression first before you start making corrections. Then click on the Insert button and your equation will be dropped into the document. In my example, I’m going to use Word, so I will open it and move my cursor to the point where I want to insert the equation.

You can do this by first opening the program you want to insert the equation into. Now that you have your equation completed in the input panel, it’s time to insert it somewhere useful.

$math input panel scan$

To erase something, just click the Erase button and then click and drag on the input panel to erase anything you like.

The second choice in the list is what I want. To correct it, I could erase and rewrite it, but the easier option is to click on Select and Correct, then click on the letter a so that it is highlighted in red and then choose the correct letter or symbol I want. The best one to start with is Select and Correct.Īs you can see above, I wrote a horrible a, which the program recognized as an n. In these cases, we can use the correct tools at the right. Once you have finished writing your equation, there may be a few items that were not correctly recognized by the input panel. However, once I wrote the letter a, it figured out that it should be x = a. For example, after I wrote x=, the preview window was showing something else. Now just start writing your equation and don’t worry if you see that the preview window is showing something different. These are some tools you can use to erase or correct your equations. Secondly, when you start writing an equation, another small window pops up to the right of the main math input screen. If the window size seems too small, don’t worry because the screen automatically grows in height and width as you get close to any particular edge, which is pretty neat. When you first open the program, you’ll just see a blank screen with a graph paper type background that says Write math here. The first result should be the Math Input Panel. The easiest way to load it is by clicking on Start and typing in Math.

Now let’s take a quick look at how you can use the Math Input Panel.

Math input panel scan