Installation

Microsoft Equation Editor comes with Microsoft Word, but it isn't installed by default. The very first time you try to use it, you may have to install the Equation Editor into your Microsoft Word environment. Usually, when you try to use Equation Editor, Word will prompt you to install it from your original installation source, and if you agree to let Word do this, it may prompt you for where to obtain the resources for Equation Editor. On Rivier PCs, it should find the resources automatically; on your own machine, you may have to find the original CD(s) from which you installed Word, insert the appropriate CD into the machine, and tell Word where to look.

If that isn't successful, then you may have to do a little more work. Here's what the Microsoft Word 2000 help on my home system says about how to install Equation Editor in Microsoft Word:

If you can't find Microsoft Equation Editor, and the Microsoft Windows installer doesn't automatically install it, you can install the component yourself. If you originally installed Word or Office from a network file server or from a shared folder, run that copy of the Setup program.

Close all programs.
Click the Windows Start button, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
Double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon
Do one of the following:
If you installed Word by using the Office Setup program, click Microsoft Office on the Install/Uninstall tab, and then click Add/Remove.
If you installed Word individually, click Microsoft Word on the Install/Uninstall tab, and then click Add/Remove.
Follow the instructions on the screen.

Note If you installed Word from a CD-ROM, and you have mapped your CD-ROM drive to a new drive letter since you originally installed Word, run Setup again from the CD-ROM. If you are running any Word files from the CD-ROM, you must uninstall Word, and then install Word again from the CD-ROM.