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rschor1-Visitor
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June 6, 2012
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Format a Solve Block

  • June 6, 2012
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The examples using Solve Blocks show a plain box with Guess Values, Constraints, and the appropriate Solver inside, but the box is otherwise "undecorated". When I lay down a Solve Block, it has labels on the side for "Guess Values", "Constraints", and "Solver". If I remove unneeded space inside the Block, the labels on the side "ride up" so they overlay each other and look just plain ugly.

How do you suppress these labels so that the Solve Block looks like the blocks in the Help Files, i.e. just a box with no labels? I looked and couldn't find it in the Ribbon (I may just have missed it), and right-clicking or left-clicking the Block didn't seem to work (unless I failed to find the Magic Spot).

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RichardJ19-Tanzanite
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June 7, 2012

I have also complained about this, but currently there is nothing you can do. Hopefully the issue will be addressed in Prime 3.0.

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MikeArmstrong1-Visitor
1-Visitor
June 8, 2012

Just to add my two pence worth, I dislike the new solve block layout compared to M15. I didn't see any valid reason to change.

Mike

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HarveyHensley12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
June 12, 2012

I'm not using Prime yet but I have looked at it and I too don't like the look of the solve block. One of the key advantages of Mathcad over all of the competition is that the code can look just like a math or engineering textbook. The Prime solve block is a step away from that concept in my opinion. If PTC is not careful, this advantage of "math that looks like math and not code" will be lost.

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RichardJ19-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
June 12, 2012

If it's a simple solve block I often put everything on one line. It's more compact, and neater. It's also not possible with Prime solve blocks

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MikeArmstrong1-Visitor
1-Visitor
June 12, 2012

Fully agree again.

Mike

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TD_12920841-Visitor
1-Visitor
August 31, 2023

Move the solve block over your left margin border. This aligns the left edge of the solve block to the left margin leaving the descriptors in the unprinted margin space.

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