Frequently Asked Questions about TeX2Word

General questions

• Q: Does TeX2Word run on Macintosh computers or Does TeX2Word run on Linux/UNIX?.
  • A: No. TeX2Word runs only on Microsoft Windows 95,98,Me,NT,2000,XP.
• Q: Is it possible to convert Word to LaTeX with TeX2Word?
  • A: No. But Word2TeX will do this job.

Installing/Uninstalling

• Q: After installing TeX2Word there's, no "TeX" option in File|Open... Why?
  • A: TeX2Word program folder contains file tex2word.cnv. Copy tex2word.cnv to the Text Converters folder (usually Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\TEXTCONV).
    After doing this you'll have to open any text file (non-native Word doc) in Word and the "TeX" option will appear in File|Open... dialogue box.

Equation conversion

• Q: I converted an LaTeX document to Word with TeX2Word, but I got [EQUATION] text in place of every equation. Why?
  • A: TeX2Word converts equations to Design Science MathType (version 4 and later) equations. You need to install MathType. Design Science MathType version 5 is distributed as a 30-day evaluation and then it goes to Lite mode. It is enough to have MathType 5 in Lite mode for TeX2Word to display equations correctly.