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BMC1-Visitor
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October 23, 2010
Question

Multiplication operator is displayed incorrectly

  • October 23, 2010
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Hello,

I use Mathcad 15 and I have a small problem. Multiplication operator is displayed incorrectly, look in the screenshot I attached:multiplication_mathcad.bmp

Also I tried to change the operator 'in Tools>Worksheet options>Display>Multiplication View As

but it didn't help, I still couldn't see an operator.

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Regards

5 replies

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MikeArmstrong1-Visitor
1-Visitor
October 23, 2010

I've never seen that before. I have just looked through the display options and cannot see that symbol.

What text have you set the variables too?

Can you post the worksheet?

Mike

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RichardJ19-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
October 23, 2010

What do Greek variables look like?

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BMC1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
October 23, 2010

Greek symbols are fine.

@Mike Armstrong

Do you mean variables font? I don't know...

My worksheet attached

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MikeArmstrong1-Visitor
1-Visitor
October 23, 2010

I can't see anything wrong with the worksheet. Have a look below.

Example.gif

Can you post a screen shot of the problem?

Mike

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BMC1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
October 23, 2010

mathcad2.bmp

mathcad3.bmp

As you can see, sometimes even brackets aren't displayed correctly. Also it doesn't matter what multiplication operator I choose from 'Tools>Worksheet options>Display>Multiplication View As', it always stay the same, as shown in the attachments.

It seems like it's a problem with fonts or... eh I don't even know where to start looking...

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MikeArmstrong1-Visitor
1-Visitor
October 23, 2010

There does seem to be some underlying issue. I take it this doesn't happen with other software packages.

You might have to try and repair your your Mathcad installation.

Mike

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BMC1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
October 23, 2010

We did it. Nothing changed.

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BMC1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
October 24, 2010

Yes! Finally, we can work normally.

It turned out that some of the Windows 7 fonts were corrupted. We refreshed indexes of fonts, repaired all existing ones and installed missing.

Thank you all for your help, have a nice day.

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pml0101-Visitor
1-Visitor
November 10, 2010

Could you please explain how you corrected this problem? I am all of a sudden having the same issue.

Thanks

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BMC1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
November 10, 2010

It seems like you are missing some fonts.

If you use Windows 7, you can do the following:

First, try to reset fonts default settings: Open Control Panel --> Appearance and Personalization --> Fonts. Click fonts settings (left panel), then click Restore default font settings.

You can also restore win7 fonts by following the last two post of this topic:

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7desktop/thread/73a8eb3e-3189-4514-b87c-18fcdca4fe26

I hope you will get rid of your problem.

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