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Report writing and Exporting Mathcad Prime Equations and Text to MS Word

I have been writing a technical report in MS Word 2013 and wanted to incorporate some Mathcad equations and supporting text to word I.e export Prime to word. Not as an object because this is problematic when then Mathcad worksheet is more than one A4 page long (word doesn't like object to span more than one page) I.e you have to shrink the object to fit on one page in word and then it becomes unreadable. To my surprise this simple exercise is impossible with Prime (at least I. Think it is). Someone told me that Word is really good at reading HTML but again I don't find that an output of that format in Prime either. Then I remembered Mathcad 15 could save as HTML so with much effort I reconstructed the Prime worksheet in MC 15. I then did a HTML export which I was happy about but then I find that MC 15 must be using an older version of HTML which MS Word 2013 rejects. So what seemed at first to be at first to be a trivial exercise has taken me many hours and ultimately failed. I cannot see a work around way of doing this. I have tried RTF from MC 15 but that is very problematic because Word renders normal text in Mathcad as if it were an equation i.e. it encloses everything in stupid boxes which are a real PITA to edit in Word. I don't know what other users think but I find this situation very annoying and unacceptable? Prime has no ability to export to MS Word or HTML and MC 15 fails or at best does the most ameturist translation job imaginable. Well what does one expect from a $2,600 AUD software? Obviously the guys in PTC have never had to write a technical report because if they had I am sure they would be giving us at least some software interoperability. Please don't say convert MC to a PDF and then convert the PDF back to Word as that in my view is a very lame solution after all Word also has an equation editor so why can't there be a good translation from Prime to Word? However maybe there is a better way that some have stumble upon if so could you please let me know?

 

regard, Mark


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