WYSIWYG Formula Editor
You probably know that there are some who can visualize maths equations in their head and can very simply write down the basic figures they need for bringing the answer into focus, or indeed the answer itself. Tesla, the inventor of radio technology, was able to perform very complex calculus in his head and got a fail grade at school simply because he wasn’t able to work it out another way; in other words he couldn’t work it out on paper.
Today many folks have been revealed to be visual and they require to visualize the task on screen (or on paper) in order to obtain a complete grasp on the equation and for rendering the answer correctly. With Microsoft’s WYSIWYG Equation Editor this is now significantly facilitated.
The Wysiwyg Equation Editor is designed and included with all Microsoft Office 2007 and higher suites and is designed as a wysiwyg editor (what you see is what you get) that allows people the ability to generate calculations in a very visual way. It is a real time calculator as well as a graphical tool that can be used for many other applications as well.
For example, if you are creating an equation, you may move the equation to another application by using the XML markup language which is included in the control. The control may additionally be embedded by using an OLE embedded object feature on supported applications.
This means it is a dynamic editor which can be of use for a wide range of mathematics applications in addition to working with programs for generating a calculation formula of something dependent on this to function, thereby adding functionality to the program that would otherwise have taken more coding to complete it.
One of the main uses I’ve seen for this Wysiwyg Equation Editor is in chemistry and formulation sciences like this. This allows one to build and save their equations in much the same way you would write them out on a chalk board then flip the board over to save the equation while you work on another.
Using this format it is possible to save your work digitally and then port it to programs and even export it to a website page if you want. In essence it is an advanced visual calculator with built-in extra functions.