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I just wished there could be something easy to replace this equation editor, it's really smooth for people that are not really proficient with LaTeX

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Microsoft wrote their own replacement and it's better-integrated into Office than the old editor was. Search for "insert equation" in the Office search box. The new one supports both the old editor's style of input and actual LaTeX inputs. Heed the dates on articles talking about it: TFA is from 2018 before they wrote the new editor.

There was an interesting paper on how the newer equation editor handles math using just Unicode math symbols: https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.1....

In PowerPoint, I am a happy user of IguanaTex [1].

There are also some other PlugIns like TeXsword. But I have not tested them. And newer MS Office versions seem to support Latex macros directly. [2]

[1] https://github.com/Jonathan-LeRoux/IguanaTex

[2] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/linear-format-equ...

How about Eric Lengyel's equation editor: https://radicalpie.com

There are also many suitable web versions such as https://editor.codecogs.com/

You can then download the image. The only thing I think they should add is the equation string as a comment to the images so you can upload and continue editing without a proprietary file format.

> the equation string as a comment to the images

Yes some diagramming tools do this when exporting to PNG, this is a great feature

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