There are folks who are able to see maths equations in their head and they are able to simply write down the basic figures they require in order to bring the answer into focus, or the answer itself. Tesla was the radio technology inventor, could perform complex calculus in his head and was awarded a fail grade at school because he simply was not able to work it out any other way; in other words, not 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.
If, for example, you need to create an equation, the application allows you to move the equation to another application using the included XML markup language. The control can also be embedded by using an OLE embedded object feature in applications which are supported.
This means that it’s a dynamic editor which may be used for a wide range of math applications as well as working with programs for generating a calculation formula of something dependent on this to function, thus adding functionality to the program that would otherwise have taken significantly more coding to complete.
An important application that I have seen for this WYSIWYG Equation Editor is in formulation sciences and chemistry. This allows the user to build and save their equations in pretty much the same sort of way you would write them out on a school room chalk board, then turning the board over to save the equation while you work on another one.
With this format you can save your work digitally and import it into programs and even export it to a web page if you like. Essentially it’s an advanced visual calculator with much more functionality.
