Using MathType and Microsoft Word to Draw and
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1. Normally this toolbar will be at the bottom of the Word window just above the Status Bar and below the horizontal scrollbar Yours may not look exactly like the one above but if you don t have the Drawing toolbar showing follow RSSWESE these steps 1 In Word s View menu hover the mouse pointer over Toolbars Sel Click on Drawing in the list of toolbars that appears as shown in the screen shot to the right 3 The Drawing toolbar should appear at the bottom of the Word window d Forms Ma Connectors d Ha Basic Shapes fy E Block Arrows We will be working with AutoShapes which is a sub toolbar located about midway along the Drawing toolbar Probably the section of the AutoShapes toolbar you ll be using most is the section titled Basic Shapes Other sections are certainly useful but you won t use them as often as the Basic Shapes et Flowchart b Soe Stars and Banners Yoh Callouts b me More AutoShapes As often as we ll be using the Basic Shapes it s convenient to drag the palette off to make it floaing To do that place the mouse pointer over the dotted line at the top of the Basic Shapes palette Notice when you do that the mouse pointer changes GuboShapes from an arrow shape to a Fp shape Hold down the left mouse button and drag the palette wherever you want it on your page You can move it at any time NOTE Whenever you see the double arro2. ll take the easy route Click the Select Objects icon which is the white arrow immediately to the right of the word Draw on the toolbar b 7 Drag an imaginary rectangle Microsoft calls it a lasso around the triangle 8 Click Draw gt Group The triangle will now move re size and totally act as one object Exercise 2 Congruent triangles Let s start with the triangle we created in Exercise 1 and create a congruent triangle Of course copy amp paste will work just fine but the problem with copy amp paste is that you have no control over where the new triangle will be pasted We ve already learned the great usefulness of the Shift key Now we ll learn what the Ctrl key can do You of course know that if you click on your triangle and drag the mouse the triangle will move Did you know that if you just add one step that you can create an exact copy and place it wherever you want That one step is to hold down the Ctrl key as you drag the triangle The means you will copy whatever is underneath the mouse pointer D D 1 Ls 1 LA 1 r I J a OY a Notice the symbol above and to the right of the mouse pointer The indicates a Copy action as opposed to a Move action When you release the mouse button you will have an exact copy of your triangle NOTE Be sure to release the mouse button before you release the Ctrl key If you release the Ctrl key first it will move the t
3. Using MathType and Microsoft Word to Draw and Label Diagrams Director of Training AR Science TANA SNA Mim y i H Design Science How Science Communicates Welcome to Using MathType and Microsoft Word to Draw and Label Diagrams This session is not designed to teach you how to use Microsoft Word or MathType We assume you already know how to use these products In the session you will learn how to use these products better and more efficiently specifically to draw diagrams in Word and label them with MathType We will be using Microsoft Word today but MathType also works very well with PowerPoint and the same techniques you learn with Word can be used in PowerPoint I hope many of your needs will be addressed in this session but if you need help in the future the following sources are available v Equation Editor Tips amp Tricks Even for MathType users our Equation Editor Tips amp Tricks most likely has several tips you can use Access the tips from our home page http www dessci com Your email address will be your password to access the page immediately v Help File MathType has an extensive help file v User Manual MathType comes with a comprehensive User Manual and many questions can be answered by referring to the manual Chapter 4 of the MathType User Manual includes 18 step by step tutorials to get you started If you don t have a MathType User Manual you can download a free PDF copy
4. SUGGESTION Since there are probably icons on your Drawing toolbar that you ll most likely never use it may be a good idea to drag these off the toolbar before you start adding new icons After all there s a limited amount of space 5 Notice there s also a Categories listing for AutoShapes so you may want to drag onto your toolbar the AutoShapes you use most You can see below what my toolbar looks like I use a screen resolution of 1280x1024 so depending on your screen resolution it may not be possible for you to include as many icons on your toolbar as I have on mine Daws le TH ra G at kk aa RE B E 4S FO a wh ow A Atoshaps COORD A o 4 A S228 Practice You learn best by doing just like how your students learn math Obviously we can t cover all the drawing techniques and commands in 90 minutes Try things out for yourself Click on an icon here and a command there and see what they do If something doesn t do what you wanted it to do remember your old friend Ctrl Z Undo Now see how many of the practice exercises on the next page you can complete on your own page 14 Practice exercises These are definitely not in any particular order of difficulty M N O 1 Complete the congruence statement AMQN A NOTE The arc is the Arc AutoShape that follows the crescent moon AutoShape in the palette below the heart Hold down the Shift key or it will be an odd shaped arc 5 2 Solve th
5. Il just label the 30 angles and the hypotenuse from each triangle It s a similar procedure to label the remaining angles and sides 1 We ll do our labeling with Text Boxes The Text Box icon is on your Drawing toolbar 45 Click it 2 Click and release the left mouse button don t drag in a blank spot on the page This will create a 1 square text box Don t worry about the size we ll resize it later 3 On Word s MathType toolbar click the Insert Inline Equation icon gt 4 When MathType opens type 30 The degree symbol is on the Miscellaneous Symbols palette which is the third from the right on the top row of palette icons 5 Close the MathType window by clicking the X in the upper right corner of the window The MathType window will close the 30 label will be inserted into the text box and the text box will resize to enclose the contents Yours may look different from mine mine is Arial 10 pt 6 Notice that when you close MathType the text box is still selected This is indicated by the diagonal marks 3 along the edge of the text box Click anywhere on these TEES diagonal marks to move the text box into position in the larger triangle Medic Meee NOTE Your cursor must look like this Te in order to move the text box If it looks like this T or this yA you will resize the text box instead of moving it The latter two cursors appear when you click on a resizing handle 7
6. at http www dessci com en support v Design Science Newsletter By subscribing to our newsletter you can stay on top of all the latest developments amp techniques http www dessci com newsletter v Technical Support We provide lifetime technical support for MathType For technical support gt Phone 562 433 0685 gt Email support dessci com gt Web http www dessci com en support There is a collection of support notices and tutorials that will cover most topics hort thie Bob Mathews Director of Training bobm dessci com Design Science Inc 4028 Broadway Long Beach e California e 90803 e USA e 562 433 0685 562 433 6969 fax info dessci com www dessci com NOTE Techniques described in this handout apply to Word 2002 Office XP and Word 2003 for Windows Earlier versions of Word for Windows may or may not be able to produce the results you see here If you are using a Macintosh computer you should be able to reproduce these results with Word X or Word 2004 Introduction to Word s Drawing Tools Microsoft Word is a word processor so it wouldn t be fair for us to expect to use it as our primary tool for graphing drawing manipulating photos etc Even so Word does have a very good set of drawing tools available through the Drawing toolbar and we can use these for a good number of our drawings Draw gt fee Tey im es g A SS op ult AutoShapes wa 7 gt 45 ll ee ow
7. show up It s there but with properties of no fill no line so you ll never see it It s easy to see that clicking Set AutoShape Defaults is not what you want to do here Example 5 Circles We want to give our students this problem on a geometry test Let s create the circle with the inscribed right triangle 1 yy NY Find the exact circumference of the circle shown here eS First create the circle This particular circle happens to have a diameter of 1 An easy way to create a circle with a 1 diameter is to select the Oval AutoShape and simply click and release the left mouse button If you don t drag the mouse there s no need to hold down the Shift key The result will be a perfect 1 circle This is not a figure the students will measure with a ruler as the sides of the triangle are clearly much shorter than 6 cm Now we need to create the triangle Again the easiest way to start is to select the Right Triangle AutoShape then click amp release the left mouse button Now we have a right triangle with sides of 1 and a hypotenuse of corresponding length We need to do three things to it rotate it re size it and move it into position To rotate it grab the green rotate handle hold down the Shift key click the left mouse button and rotate until the hypotenuse is horizontal Remember to release the left mouse button first then release the Shift key To re size it we could move it into position fi
8. Fill PowerPoint slides For a test or other document that you ll be SE BEEBE printing in black amp white using patterns works better than using colors You can select a pattern by selecting Fill Effects on the SEEEEEES Fill Color palette as shown here SERS EES 8 ae ge is E More Colors Fill Effects 1 Fill Effects Now that you re an expert at creating and labeling drawings and diagrams try your hand at the practice exercises at the end of the handout page 13 Customizing the Drawing toolbar Since you re going to be using the Drawing toolbar often it makes sense to put commonly used items on the toolbar Here s how 1 Right click on any toolbar From the context menu choose Customize It will be at the bottom of the list NOTE Whenever you see the word Customize on a product s toolbar or in a menu it always means the same thing it means to customize your toolbars This is true in any of the Microsoft Office products as well as Word Perfect AppleWorks and just about any other software application on the market today 2 In the Customize dialog click on the Commands tab In the Categories list click on Drawing 4 Find the commands you want in the Commands list and simply drag them to a convenient place on your Drawing toolbar 09
9. Label the two hypotenuses 64 and 12 using a similar procedure You don t need MathType for the 12 just type the number into a text box and manually resize ie it 8 Does your set of triangles amp text boxes look like mine 6 Probably not Read on co page 9 Text box properties When we created the text boxes above they had the default settings of white fill and black line 0 75 pt We don t want a fill color inside our text box because it covers up part of our triangle We don t want a line around it for equally obvious reasons Does your head hurt yet There s a lot to learn when using the Drawing Tools but practice pays off l page 10 We can get rid of the fill and line very easily First we need the text box selected Easiest way to do this is to first make sure nothing is selected The de select button is the Esc key on the keyboard Press it Now we ll learn another function of the Shift key to select a text box or placeholder Normally when you click inside a text box or placeholder 1 e the rectangles that hold the text in PowerPoint a cursor appears inside the text box or placeholder ready for you to edit existing text or equations or insert new stuff If you hold down the Shift key when clicking on the contents of a text box or placeholder it selects the entire container There are two other very important icons on the Drawing toolbar that we haven t us
10. dle on the top side That s the rotate handle When you place your mouse pointer over the rotate handle notice it changes shape By clicking and dragging your mouse in any direction you can rotate the object If you hold down the Shift key while rotating the object you can rotate it in precise 15 increments Note that the 15 reference is based on the object s position when you started the present rotation rather than the object s original position Notice the yellow diamond to the left of the rotate handle Microsoft calls this the adjustment handle You can use the adjustment handle to adjust the appearance but not the size of most AutoShapes To see its effect on the above hexagon compare these two hexagons with the original A chart on the next page summarizes the effects of the Shift key page 5 Uses for the Shift key when using Word s Drawing tools Result of holding down the Shift key Creating a polygon Creates a regular polygon Creating a line Creates a horizontal or vertical line or any multiple of 15 Rotating a shape Rotates the shape in increments of 15 Creates an arc that s a portion of a circle Dragging corner handle of an existing Allows resizing while maintaining proportion and shape rotation The table lists 6 uses for the Shift key We have discussed only the first 4 so far we ll get to the other two in a bit Exercise 1 Scalene triangles We ve noticed there are two trian
11. e system of inequalities by graphing y lt 2x 1 y gt x 3 i E tenn nnn nner a E T NOTE The yellow fill is a combinationof i i xX a rectangle and a right triangle with Pot ot 50 transparency The light blue fill is a ree right triangle with 70 transparency ieee Seat ae y x 3 The grid was created with Math Type _ and the arrows and shading created in MES Word en ree oes e 3 Factor the polynomial x 5x 6 using Algebra Tiles 4 Use your ruler to find actual measures for a b and c Do these measures confirm that a b c page 15
12. ed yet the Fill Color and Line Color icons They look like this 2 and respectively Notice the downward pointing triangle to the right of the paint can and paint brush Click on the one next to the paint can A palette will pop up and you can select from several different fill colors The choice at the top is the one we want though No Fill Click it Do the same for the paint brush and select No Line NOTE It s important that you click the triangle next to the paint can and paint brush If you click the can itself or the brush you will apply the fill or line color previously selected Now you can see the triangle s behind the text boxes The easiest way to label a drawing is to create one text box with a label inside it then change its properties to no fill no line then Ctrl drag the text box to copy it then edit the contents for the individual labels If the label is a MathType object just double click it edit it in MathType then close the MathType window NOTE At some point you will no doubt discover the item on the Draw menu that says Set AutoShape Defaults This does exactly what you would expect it to do but that could be a problem If you have a text box with no fill no line selected and you click Set AutoShape Defaults it will indeed make the default for text boxes no fill and no line Problem is all AutoShapes will now have properties of no fill no line Imagine drawing a triangle and it doesn t
13. gles on the AutoShapes palette a right triangle and an isosceles triangle There s no icon for a scalene triangle but it s not real difficult to create one of our own Follow the steps 1 In AutoShapes gt Lines click on the Line icon If there is a Line icon on your Drawing toolbar you can click that one if you want 2 While holding down the Shift key drag your mouse to create a horizontal line about 2 long 3 Leave the line selected and click the Line icon again 4 Starting at the left end of the existing line hold down the Shift key and drag to create a 30 line that s a bit shorter than 1 5 Now for the final line click on the Line icon and drag to create the line to close the open side of the triangle Not a bad looking triangle but what if we want to move it If we just click on a side and drag only that side moves We could group the lines together so they Il move and resize as a group That s exactly what we re going to do but there s an easy way to do it next page NOTE If you didn t follow the instructions above about grid settings it will be difficult if not impossible to create a scalene triangle without gaps or overlapping sides at the vertices page 6 6 First of all if you really want to select the lines individually you can do that but in the case of a complex object like the polar grid shown earlier it s nearly impossible not to miss one or two lines Therefore we
14. icon 4 page 11 b The label on the right was created in MathType saved as a 384 dpi GIF and reduced in Word to 25 of its original size The expanding reducing steps were necessary in order to preserve decent print quality c In the interest of space in the handout I ll leave it to you to experiment and figure out on your own how to create these labels An alternative of course is to just use text boxes and have normally oriented 1 e horizontal text Nothing at all wrong with that 7 The dot at the center of the circle is easy once you figure out where the center is We already know where the horizontal diameter is so if we can temporarily draw a vertical diameter we can place the dot at the intersection Here s how a First select the circle The best way to do this without selecting the triangle by mistake is to click on the bottom half of the circle You don t have to precisely click on the circle s circumference since the circle has a white fill Just click on the bottom half of the fill b With the circle selected you can tell where to draw the vertical diameter because of the resizing handles on the circle That s why you selected the circle first to get the resizing handles to appear Remember to hold down the Shift key as you draw the line c Click the Oval icon on the Basic Shapes palette Holding down the Shift key drag the mouse to create the smallest circle you can make Don t worry about its si
15. nsparency in our final exercise beginning on the next page page 12 Exercise 6 Venn diagrams amp linear inequalities We want to create a simple Venn diagram to show the intersection of two sets A and B 1 Create a circle to represent set A A simple circle of 1 diameter will do 2 Using the Ctrl drag method create an identical copy of the original circle and overlap at about the 25 point 3 This isn t what we want to end up with but it s exactly what we want at this point in our drawing 4 Let s color the circles red and blue so that the intersection is purple 5 Right click the circle on the left From the context menu choose Format AutoShape 6 Inthe Colors and Lines tab choose a fill color of red and set the Transparency slider to 50 If you prefer you can also type in the value of 50 into the box next to the slider 7 Click OK 8 Following a similar procedure set the fill color of the other circle to 50 blue I created the label with MathType and inserted it into a no fill no line text box AQB You can use similar techniques to shade inequalities on a E w coordinate plane These techniques with overlapping color work well when printing color transparencies or projecting on No
16. riangle not copy it Exercise 3 Similar triangles Be patient the MathType part is coming Let s continue with our previous examples and use the same triangle for this example We want to rotate the initial triangle so that the shortest side is vertical or nearly so Then we want to create a similar triangle with a common side page 7 Starting with the triangle we created in Example 1 rotate it so the shortest side is vertical It may help if you increase Word s zoom setting to 200 Zoom settings are on Word s Standard toolbar which is most likely the toolbar immediately below the menu bar Now create a copy of the triangle to the left of the original Use the simple technique you learned in Example 2 Both triangles will still be selected so press the Esc key to deselect them both Click the triangle on the left so that it is selected Drag one of the upper corners down while holding the Shift key This will cause the triangle to become smaller while still retaining the interior angles of the original triangle With the smaller triangle selected click Draw gt Rotate or Flip gt Flip Horizontal Move the smaller triangle so that the smaller sides are tangent and aligned at the bottom vertex Group it together as we did in Exercise 1 Now let s label it page 8 Exercise 4 Labeling drawings We want to put labels on our triangles from Example 3 For the purpose of this example we
17. rst then while holding down the Shift key drag a resizing corner until it s the proper size There s nothing wrong with that method and indeed that s what we d do if the triangle and circle were more generic shapes In this case though we know the diameter of the circle is 1 and we know that s the length we need for our hypotenuse Jf our hypotenuse were already 1 the other two sides would each have a length of V2 so why not adjust the formatting properties of the triangle so that its sides are 0 707 in length That s not exactly J2 of course but the difference won t be perceptible Here s how to do tt a Right click on the triangle and from the context menu that appears select Format AutoShape b In the Format AutoShape dialog select the Size tab and in the Scale section enter values of 70 7 for height and width Click OK c You should now be able to move the triangle into position on the circle Once you get the triangle close if you need to make fine adjustments you can use the arrow keys on the keyboard to nudge it in any direction You probably noticed a slight difference in appearance between the two 6 cm labels on the triangle s sides in the diagram above The reason for that is because there s no easy way to rotate text in Word so I used two methods and you see them both above a The label on the left was created with WordArt accessible from the Drawing toolbar via this
18. t of an isosceles triangle a circle from an oval etc Lines Lines are easy enough but one thing to point out about drawing lines is the effect of the Shift key If you hold down the Shift key while dragging to create a line you can create a line that s perfectly horizontal perfectly vertical or any multiple of 15 This will allow you to create drawings such as the polar grid you see to the right which was created in Word 2000 NOTE When using the Shift key to constrain your drawings it s important to release the mouse button before you release the Shift key If you mistakenly release the Shift key first simply release the mouse button and press Ctrl Z to undo the drawing Now re create the drawing and release the mouse button first Resizing and rotating drawings When an object is selected you ve no doubt noticed the presence of the 8 resizing handles around the object These appear as open circles along the edges and at the corners of the object s bounding box as in the hexagon you see to the right When you click on any of the resizing handles and drag the object resizes in the direction of the drag If you hold down the Shift key as you drag a corner the object will re size proportionally Note o that if you drag a resizing handle on the top bottom left or right edge the Shift key has no effect it only constrains when you drag a corner D Notice the green dot that s offset from the resizing han
19. uced with Office XP It was also included in Office 2003 The concept behind the drawing canvas wasn t all that bad but it ends up generating more frustration than usefulness Here s how to turn it off 1 Click on Tools gt Options and select the General tab 2 Make sure the box is unchecked that says Automatically create drawing canvas when inserting AutoShapes 3 Click OK The next AutoShape you insert will be a simple floating object meaning you can position it anywhere on the page Drawing simple shapes To create our first AutoShape let s make a rectangle The rectangle icon is the first icon in the first row of icons _ When you click any of the Basic Shapes icons notice your mouse pointer changes from an arrow to a crosshair shape To create your rectangle just click the left page 4 mouse button and drag down and to the right Now we have a simple rectangle like the one you see here The constrain key What if we don t want a generic rectangle What if the rectangle we want is a square Fortunately we don t have to guess If you hold down the Shift key as you drag to create your rectangle you will create a square like the one you see to the right Microsoft calls the Shift key a constrain key because it constrains the shape to specific parameters As a matter of fact the Shift key will make a regular polygon out of any of the Basic Shapes polygons an equilateral triangle ou
20. w cursor it means a mouse drag will result in the object beneath the mouse pointer being moved to a new location This will become increasingly important as we get farther into the tutorial NOOO rf page 3 Drawing Tool Fundamentals Placement of the drawing There are some very important points we need to consider before we get into actually drawing any shapes Grid settings Word divides the page up into an invisible grid If you want you can make this grid visible as well as adjust other grid settings Snap to Snap objects to grid 1 Click Draw gt Grid Snap objects to other objects Grid settings NOTE Whenever there are successive levels of menus Horizontal spacing to navigate our practice in this handout will be to denote subsequent menus with the greater than symbol For example Draw gt Grid means to first rid origin click the word Draw on the Drawing toolbar Then on v Use margins the menu that expands click the word Grid Drawing Grid Vertical spacing 2 In the first section make sure Snap objects to grid is unchecked and Snap objects to other objects is checked _ Display gridlines on screen 3 The next section Grid settings isn t real critical when you don t have Snap objects to grid checked 4 It s up to you what you select in the next section but you can see what my preferences are Default Drawing canvas This is a Windows only feature that Microsoft introd
21. ze It ll be too big but we ll resize it d Right click on the circle you just created and on the context menu choose Format AutoShape e On the Size tab enter a height and width of 0 02 Don t click OK yet f On the Colors and Lines tab select a fill color of black Now you can click OK and move the dot into position g Delete the vertical diameter from the drawing The only reason we put it there was so we d know where the center is NOTE Be careful when you click on this itty bitty dot to move it make sure you have the double arrow cursor on the mouse pointer Te and not a diagonal arrow 8 The only other thing to do is to put the square in place to indicate that this is a right triangle Just create a small square rotate it to 45 and move it in to place You may want to set the line color to gray The circle triangle drawing at the beginning of this exercise has a gray square However if you do that there is another difficulty introduced you now have a couple of small gray lines on top of your triangle Here s how to fix it Right click on the triangle and in the context menu choose Format AutoShape On the Colors and Lines tab choose a fill color of No Fill Select the square you created above On the Drawing toolbar click Draw gt Order gt Send Backward Keep doing this until the two gray lines on top of the triangle are underneath the triangle ao Of We ll learn some more about fills and tra
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