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Publication-quality plots with Excel

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012 Posted in Technical Writing | No Comments »

Microsoft Office tools are not the best choice for scientific publications, but sometimes you have to use them.  Some journals actually require Word documents, and many of my collaborators simply don't do LaTeX.  The process outlined below is they best ...

Numbering equations in Word 2007

Tuesday, July 12th, 2011 Posted in Technical Writing | No Comments »

Microsoft Word isn't the best software for technical writing, but sometimes we have to use it.  Here is the best way I've found to emulate the automatic equation numbering that LaTeX has been doing for years: Insert an equation (old-style) Use the ...