MS Word equation editor won't open when double-clicking on an equation

[JustWantItToWork]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel I created a document (.docx) using the Office 2008 version of MS Word some time ago (2 months or so). Recently I wanted to correct an equation in that document and re-opened the document (on the same system and with the "same" copy of Word) and attempted to double-click the equation to edit it. Instead of the equation editor I get the "Format Picture" dialog box. In the interim I did install an update (I tend to try to stay up to date) and am at 12.2.4 (100205).

The application will let me create new equations just fine. How can I get my document back to an editable state?

 

[John McGhie]

Chances are, there's nothing you can do other than re-create that equation.

There are various things you can do to a Word document that will cause it to
degrade equations to "pictures". Saving in the old .doc format and editing
it in a version of Word earlier than 2007 is one.

Many users actually do it on purpose: a document containing lots of
equations is much less likely to corrupt if you convert all the equations to
pictures.

Sorry to be no help at all!

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel
I created a document (.docx) using the Office 2008 version of MS Word some
time ago (2 months or so). Recently I wanted to correct an equation in that
document and re-opened the document (on the same system and with the "same"
copy of Word) and attempted to double-click the equation to edit it. Instead
of the equation editor I get the "Format Picture" dialog box. In the interim I
did install an update (I tend to try to stay up to date) and am at 12.2.4
(100205).

The application will let me create new equations just fine. How can I get my
document back to an editable state?

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