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1. #Microsoft powerpoint for macs with equation editor software#
2. #Microsoft powerpoint for macs with equation editor license#

Bob and Dennis refined the vision and designed "Presenter" to implement it.

#Microsoft powerpoint for macs with equation editor software#

In 1984, Gaskins joined a failing Silicon Valley software firm called Forethought and hired a software developer, Dennis Austin. student who realized that the coming age of graphics interfaces could revolutionize the design and creation of presentation materials. The idea for PowerPoint came from the mind of Bob Gaskins, a former Berkeley Ph.D. Presentations can be saved and run in any of the file formats : the default. The overall design of a presentation can be controlled with a master slide and the overall structure, extending to the text on each slide, can be edited using a primitive outliner. These can be animated in a variety of ways. Transitions, on the other hand are movements between slides. Emergence, emphasis, and exit of elements on a slide itself are controlled by what PowerPoint calls Custom Animations. PowerPoint provides two types of movements. Slides can also form the basis of webcasts. Slides can be printed, or (more usually) displayed on-screen and navigated through at the command of the presenter. The "slide" analogy is a reference to the slide projector, a device which has become somewhat obsolete due to the use of PowerPoint and other presentation software. Ĭp -pr UBF8T346G9.Office/Outlook* ~/Library/Group\ Containers/UBF8T346G9.In Microsoft Office PowerPoint, as in most other presentation software, text, graphics, movies, and other objects are positioned on individual pages or "slides". Where they also say: "Please note that removing the UBF8T346G9 folder will also remove the Outlook profile folder." I don't use Outlook, but if you do, then after doing the above and have equations in Powerpoint working again, you may want to do: mv ~/Library/Group\ Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/Outlook*. In the box enter "~/Library" and navigate to the folders you want to move somewhere else. If you want to restore your custom dictionary, then exit powerpoint and in a command line do: cp -p UBF8T346G9.Office/Custom\ Dictionary ~/Library/Group\ Containers/UBF8T346G9.OfficeĪnd overwrite the default dictionary that was there.Īlternatively, all of these commands can be done from the Finder as well. Then run powerpoint, and voila, the "insert equation" feature works again, and replaces things like "\alpha" and "\int" with the appropriate symbols.

#Microsoft powerpoint for macs with equation editor license#

If you move only the second folder, it asks for license info.) (Moving both of these folders as I do here ensures that Powerpoint finds it's license when it starts again. Mv ~/Library/Group\ Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office. See more Outlook comments below.)įrom the command line (i.e., in the Terminal app), I did: mkdir temp

(If you use Outlook, I suggest first quitting the Outlook app. Here is a slight tweak of the original instructions: To make it a little safer, save the files rather than delete them. I was leery of removing files from ~/Library, but I didn't want to have to completely reinstall Office either, so I eventually did this, and it worked for me. We should probably still all contact Microsoft about this, because otherwise they will never fix it.

I have to decide between either having my equations working, or being able to have lower case letters at the beginning of my sentences by default. For me this happens when I disable 'capitalize first letter in sentence' in the autocorrect menu. Now it's crucial that the functionality can break again. For me, it is enabled by default.ĭelete and reinstall the whole Office suite. You need to log back into your Office applications afterwards though, and furthermore this will remove your outlook profile folder, so you might want to copy 'UBF8T346G9.Office/outlook' to another location instead of deleting it with the other stuff, and move it back after restarting Office.Īlso make sure to disable 'send usage statistics' in your Office applications after deleting the folders, if you're not comfortable with sending those. ~/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office After a lot of trying things out and searching the internet, I found two 'solutions'.