How to put a line break in an equation in MS Word 2007 or newer

Question

When working with an Equation object in MS Word 2007 or newer, is there a way to force a line break inside the equation?

Using Shift Enter causes a line break, but it also breaks the equation, i.e. then I have two equations instead of one. It seems that some operations (alignments) still operate on them as a unit, whereas the operation of converting from display formula to inline formula treats them as separate equations. I wonder whether this is serious.

Solution 1

When in doubt, right-click. The context menu for equations includes a "manual break" command.

Solution 2

I just had the same problem, but solved it differently because I could not figure out the "manual break". I might be on Word 2010. My solution was to insert a matrix, one cell for each line that I required. I needed 5 lines, but more can be inserted.

Raymond Anderson Johannesburg

Comments

[Jukka K. Korpela]

This worked for Word 2007. According @RaymondAnderson’s answer, there is no such command in Word 2010. Neither is there such a command in Word 2013.

[daaxix]

What a crappy way to insert a line