Chemistry Add-In for Microsoft Word

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Tutorial 4 – Using the Chemistry Navigator in Chem4Word

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This video tutorial shows you how to use the Chemistry Navigator in the Chem4Word addin.

Here’s the video

Step-by-step

  • You can click the Chemistry ribbon’s “Navigator” button to see all of the chemistry in a Microsoft Word document.
  • Users can choose whether to show structures or chemical formulae in the Navigator.
  • Using the Navigator, you can insert linked or unlinked copies of any chemistry into the document.
  • You can choose how these linked copies are displayed in a document;.
  • Chemistry can be displayed as 2D Structures, Chemical Names,Chemical Formulae or any other labels you have created.
  • Users can update all of the linked copies of a chemistry object by editing one of the copies.
  • You can select any chemistry in a document and change the way it is displayed using the View button in the Chemistry ribbon,

You now know how to use the Chemistry Navigator to insert linked copies of chemistry and how to change how these are displayed in your Word documents!

Learn more

There are other ways to reuse structures that you’ve already drawn.  The next tutorial will shows you how to use the Chemistry Gallery to re-use chemistry in other Word documents..

Get your copy of the Chemistry Addin for Microsoft Word from the download page.

Tutorial 3 – Add a structure from PubChem to a document using Chem4Word

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This video tutorial shows you how to add a structure from a PubChem search to a Microsoft Word document using the Chem4Word addin.

Here’s the video

Step-by-step

  • Clicking the Chemistry ribbon’s “Import” button allows us to search PubChem for structures, rather than having to draw them manually.
  • Type a seach term, such as a common name or IUPAC name for the chemistry you want to include in the document.
  • Select the correct compound from the list of results from the search.
  • Click the OK button and Chem4Word will search ChemSpider to see if we can find a name for your structure, that you can use that name elsewhere in your document;  we’ll show you how in a separate tutorial.
  • Edit the structure if you want to remove excessive hydrogen atoms that may have been drawn.  Sometimes, structure files in PubChem represent all hydrogen atoms explicitly,

You now have your first structure from PubChem in your Microsoft Word document!

Learn more

We can show chemistry as 2D structures, formulae or chemical names.  The next tutorial shows you how to change the way that chemistry is represented in Microsoft Word documents that were created using the Chem4Word addin.

Get your copy of the Chemistry Addin for Microsoft Word from the download page.