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Is there a way to quickly find where a variable was initially defined/declared in Mathcad.

I'm working in a rather large Mathcad (150 pages get printed). I'll see an equation that is using variables declared in earlier sections however I can't use the Edit->Find since the variable uses subscripting. I resort to eye scanning for the variable declaration.

In Eclipse you can control click on a variable and it will take you to the variables declaration. Is there something similar in Mathcad?

jeff
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Unfortunately, there isn't a 'search for definition' feature. I believe that there have been a number of requests for it over the years ...

Why can't you Edit/Find, though? Which kind of subscripting are you referring to: index or name? Which version of Mathcad are you using?

Search for an array name shouldn't be a problem, as the index won't form part of the name.

If you want a subscripted name and you are using Mathcad 15 (or lower), then simply type the name as you would enter it; eg if your variable is xsub then type x.sub in the find box.

Stuart Bruff
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  • No problem. After a bit of playing around, I found that in Prime you type the name without the '.', so in the example above typing xsub in the Find box will find any instances of xsub as well as plain xsub. – Stuart Bruff Sep 12 '15 at 00:04