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Corina
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hi i'm cooking a PhD thesis

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hi
I am a beginner in latex, I think working in windows environment. Install MiKTeX and WinEdt

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Hi Corina,

welcome to the forum!

Also I started with MiKTeX and WinEdt, many years ago.
Today I use TeX Live with TeXworks as editor.

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hi Stefan_K thanks for the welcome
I was watching the programs you are using and i and have a question: i work with matlab, ANSYS, and excel I need to import graphics, tables and figures of these programs. Now I have trouble inserting graphics of quality from excel :cry:. have i an advantage if use TEX live and TeXworks?
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LaTeX can produce much better tables than excel does.
And it can generate much better data plots or graphics in general.

Plot samples: PGFplots.net
Graphics samples: TikZ examples
Further samples: LaTeX Cookbook


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