Aligning a system of equations in MS Word

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I'm working on a Word document rich of formulas that needs to be collected into a curly bracket.

This is what I managed to do up to now: enter image description here

The problem is that I'd like all the equations to be left aligned to the bracket. Is it possible to do that?

Gnufabio

Posted 2017-07-28T09:28:32.527

Reputation: 111

Possible dupe: Auto align left equations in Office Word 2013?

– DavidPostill – 2017-07-28T10:35:41.257

@DavidPostill nope, that command is to align the entire group. I'm referring to the alignment of each line here. – Gnufabio – 2017-07-28T10:51:03.567

You can't remove the group, left align, and then add the group again? – DavidPostill – 2017-07-28T10:53:15.120

Answers

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Yes you can do this with LaTeX in Word 365 using a combination of \eqarray and & characters before the = for each line (or wherever else you want the alignment to be).

For example:

\left{ \eqarray{\bm{\nu} &= \bm{B^{-\top}} \left(\bm{B^{-1}}\bm{a_{s}}\right)@ &= \bm{B^{-\top}}\bm{y}}\right.

produces the result:

Word display image

If you put the & at the beginning of each line it will align everything next to the curly bracket.
For example:

\left{ \eqarray{&\bm{\nu} = \bm{B^{-\top}} \left(\bm{B^{-1}}\bm{a_{s}}\right)@ &= \bm{B^{-\top}}\bm{y}}\right.

gives:

Word display image 2

Chris Wallace

Posted 2017-07-28T09:28:32.527

Reputation: 11