# Importing Microsoft Math

**URL:** <https://pressbooks.community/t/importing-microsoft-math/1422>\
**Category:** Adding Math or Interactive Content\
**Created:** [July 15, 2020, 6:37pm UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/importing-microsoft-math/1422 "2020-07-15T18:37:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![lrm6](https://pressbooks.community/user_avatar/pressbooks.community/lrm6/32/825_2.png) [@lrm6](https://pressbooks.community/u/lrm6)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 6:37pm UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/importing-microsoft-math/1422/1 "2020-07-15T18:37:35Z")

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I’m working on getting a statistics text from word into Pressbooks. The text was authored in word and has thousands of equations in Word’s equation format. I’ve done some test imports and I haven’t had success getting the equations to import correctly.

Any suggestions for getting the word equations into a format that will import cleanly? If it were just a few equations we could manually convert them to LaTeX, but with so many I’m looking for a tech fix. I ultimately want the equations to display with MathJax on the Pressbook side.

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**Author:** ![SteelWagstaff](https://pressbooks.community/user_avatar/pressbooks.community/steelwagstaff/32/1280_2.png) [@SteelWagstaff](https://pressbooks.community/u/SteelWagstaff)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 7:26pm UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/importing-microsoft-math/1422/2 "2020-07-15T19:26:18Z")

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Hi @lrm6 this sounds gnarly! I haven’t had to do this conversion previously, but you might try the equation conversion tool described here: [https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/235363](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/235363). I don’t have Microsoft Word so I’m unable to test/verify myself. If you do convert equations to LaTeX, you’d then need to ensure that you use one of the Pressbooks support LaTeX syntax delimiters: [https://guide.pressbooks.com/chapter/equations-and-formulas/#MathJaxLaTeX](https://guide.pressbooks.com/chapter/equations-and-formulas/#MathJaxLaTeX). You may have better success converting the equations to MathML, which should work directly on import without having to fiddle with math delimiters, though again, I haven’t tested/confirmed myself.

If those routes fail, maybe [http://www.wordtolatex.com/blog/how-to-convert-mathtype-equations-and-microsoft-word-equations-to-latex/](http://www.wordtolatex.com/blog/how-to-convert-mathtype-equations-and-microsoft-word-equations-to-latex/) might be an option?

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**Author:** ![lrm6](https://pressbooks.community/user_avatar/pressbooks.community/lrm6/32/825_2.png) [@lrm6](https://pressbooks.community/u/lrm6)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 10:25pm UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/importing-microsoft-math/1422/3 "2020-07-15T22:25:08Z")

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Thanks for this, @SteelWagstaff! Mathtype sounds promising. It looks like it’s not currently compatible with Mac OS, but I know a few windows users who may be able to test. Will report back!

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**Author:** ![SteelWagstaff](https://pressbooks.community/user_avatar/pressbooks.community/steelwagstaff/32/1280_2.png) [@SteelWagstaff](https://pressbooks.community/u/SteelWagstaff)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/importing-microsoft-math/1422/4 "2025-09-29T19:23:22Z")

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