PowerPoint 2016 for Mac finally includes the new-style equation editor (which was already available in Word for Mac and PowerPoint for Windows). An equation can be inserted using a ribbon button (Insert → Insert Equation). How can I add a keyboard shortcut for this? Is there already a keyboard shortcut for it? For Word I could use the OS settings from System Preferences → Keyboard and set up a shortcut for the menu item named 'Equation'. But I cannot find a corresponding menu item in PowerPoint.
To assign a new shortcut key, select the appropriate macro listed above, click inside the Press new shortcut key text box (Word 2011: Press new keyboard shortcut), and press the keyboard shortcut you want to assign. The book notes that some publishers don’t want parenthesized equation-number references, so it’s a good idea to have the parentheses outside of the field. You can copy/paste this parenthesized equation number to insert equation numbers for other equations in your paper. Word automatically numbers all such entries sequentially.
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I can only find this feature on the ribbon, but not the in menu. Is there any way to set up a keyboard shortcut for it? Update: Since the situation seems to be in flux, here's an update: • Older versions, including the one that was current when I asked the question, have the undocumented shortcut ⌘- ⌥- =.
There is no menu item in this versions that would allow setting up a shortcut manually. • More recent versions do not have a shortcut built in, but they do have the menu item Insert → Equation, which makes it possible to set up a shortcut manually.