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-MFra-21-Topaz II
21-Topaz II
August 19, 2019
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Automatic parentheses

  • August 19, 2019
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Hi ALL,

How do you avoid unnecessary parentheses that Mathcad applied to each complete expression automatically? It seems to me that it is one of the first information to be learned but it escapes me at present. How do I?

Thank much. 

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Best answer by Werner_E

Mathcad does not add automatically parenthesis for each expression.

What exactly are you talking about and which version you are referring to? Mathcad or Prime?

 

Haven't seen you picture when I first looked at your post.

Those green parenthesis simply denote that you did not type those expressions but simply copied them - probably from another sheet or from a quicksheet, etc. As soon as you edit the expression the parenthesis should be gone.

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Werner_E25-Diamond IAnswer
25-Diamond I
August 19, 2019

Mathcad does not add automatically parenthesis for each expression.

What exactly are you talking about and which version you are referring to? Mathcad or Prime?

 

Haven't seen you picture when I first looked at your post.

Those green parenthesis simply denote that you did not type those expressions but simply copied them - probably from another sheet or from a quicksheet, etc. As soon as you edit the expression the parenthesis should be gone.

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-MFra-21-Topaz IIAuthor
21-Topaz II
August 19, 2019

Mathcad 15

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Werner_E25-Diamond I
25-Diamond I
August 19, 2019
@-MFra- wrote:

Mathcad 15

Yes, it was clear from the pic at last.

Green parenthesis generally mean Annotations. If you copy a region from another sheet, the source is put along as metadata. If you rightclick in front of the first parenthesis you see the option "View Sources ...".

As far as I know there is no way to delete all annotations in a worksheet, but you can hide them via the menu: "View" - "Annotations". That way you will see the green parenthesis only if the region is selected.

 

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gcurl10-Marble
10-Marble
July 1, 2023

Hi MFra and All,

 

This answer is 4 years in coming. In Mathcad 15, I save the file, exit, then reopen the file. The green and useless to me parentheses are gone.

 

Some software engineer, or others, must feel this behavior is important.

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Werner_E25-Diamond I
25-Diamond I
July 1, 2023
@gcurl wrote:

Hi MFra and All,

 

This answer is 4 years in coming. In Mathcad 15, I save the file, exit, then reopen the file. The green and useless to me parentheses are gone.

 

Some software engineer, or others, must feel this behavior is important.

I also don't find much use for those green annotations, but as I always have turned off the view of annotations its no annoyance.

If viewing annotations is turned on, saving and reopening the file does not make the annotations go away though!

I just tried by copying an expression from a quicksheet, saved the file, close Mathcad, double clicked the saved file and the annotation still was here.

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