With the new Microsoft Word 2016 if you insert an equation through the Equation button within the Insert menu you get this new-looking editor.




Equations created in such a way can be viewed in inline, professional or linear mode and offer advanced options.

But if you use a keyboard shortcut (Alt+= or any user defined one) instead you end up getting this old-fashioned editor:


And if you edit equations from documents made by other people sometimes they are opened with the new editor, sometimes with the old one.

Can anyone explain the difference between them and how to force Word to always use the new one, please?, I would like to get it with a keyboard shortcut.
And also how to convert an equation made with the old editor onto the new format?

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

If you have assigned a shortcut to the InsertEquation command (in the Customize Keyboard dialog box), that shortcut will create an old Microsoft Equation 3 object.

EquationInsert is the command to which you want to assign a shortcut if you want to start the new equation editor.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

Thanks, I'll try.

And how do you transform from one type to another when you already have it created?