Press (another) special Get Equation button on my add-in’s Ribbon.

That gave me this:īeing half-engineer, I immediately started dreaming up a convoluted solution to her problem. I copied an equation from Word, then pasted it into Visio.

Yikes, math is hard! It Can’t Be That Hard… However, I did recognize some terms like “import”, “ MathML“, “convert”, “Oxygen”. I remember her emitting a lengthy stream gibberish (which she politely apologized for). My client described a convoluted process with lots of details I didn’t follow. While they create the equations with no problems in Microsoft Word, they were having trouble getting those equations into the SVG step of their process. Recently it was brought to my attention that they were having trouble with mathematical equations. I’ve developed an add-in for Visio that they use to capture screenshots, import images in bulk, replace images with newer versions, resize images to standard sizes, export multi-page Visio documents as single files, add special footers to pages, sort pages by names, and more! Yeah, I know. A lot of the work involves bringing images, screenshots together on a Visio page, adding notations and other vector-based elements, then exporting the results as SVG and PNG for further manipulation by their content management system. I have a long-time client whose team uses Visio as part of their extensive documentation processes. If you’ve just got your morning coffee and like to read a bit of a story, then settle in for some nerdy prose… The Real-world Problem

If you’re looking for a solution in a hurry, just skip to the bottom and read A Very Simple Solution.

I ran across a scenario where I needed to get a Word equation into Visio, and have it export to SVG.

When to insert equation in word