TABLE OF CONTENTS With some customizing, Mathcad calculations can look as nice as a published textbook. This chapter will teach you how to set-up customizations to improve the appearance of your worksheets.
One way to achieve a consistent professional look to your calculation is by the use of styles. Styles allow numbers and constants to have different appearances. They also allow you to change the look of text for titles, headings, explanations, and conclusions. You can even change the look of specific variables, such as vectors, so that they stand-out from other variables.
Headers and footers are critical to engineering calculations. They identify you, your company, the project information, and the date the calculations were performed.
Chapter 6 will:
Discuss Mathcad styles for variables, constants and text.
Tell about the advantages of using styles.
Show how to create and modify math and text styles.
Explain how to create headers and footers.
Describe how to create a standard header that includes a graphic logo.
Give suggestions about information that should be included in headers and footers.
Discuss margins, including how to use information located to the right of the right margin.
Discuss how to customize the icons on the toolbar.
Whether you know it or not, you always use styles when you use Mathcad. Every time you type a definition or enter text, Mathcad assigns a default style to the typed information. A style is a specific set of formatting characteristics associated with the items displayed on your Mathcad worksheet.
