26 Tips & Recommendations for Your Mathcad Prime Work & Worksheets

Our Mathcad experts have put together this list of 26 tips and recommendations you can start putting into practice right away to improve not only the quality of your worksheets in PTC Mathcad Prime, but also improve your own usability of the software.

Some of the tips in this video have their own videos on this channel that go into much more detail.
Let us know in the comments section which of these tips you already use or plan on using! Of course, there are way more tips and tricks out there for Mathcad than just what this video covered. Stay subscribed to this channel to hear more in the future.

While this video was recording using PTC Mathcad Prime 8, you can try out the latest version of PTC Mathcad Prime (Mathcad Prime 9 as of 2023) for yourself at https://www.mathcad.com/trial . All of the tips included in this video still apply.

00:00 Intro
00:51 1. Add to Quick Access Toolbar
01:00 2. Show Quick Access Toolbar Below Ribbon
01:34 3. Remove From Quick Access Toolbar
01:40 4. Contextual RMB Menus
01:46 5. Suppress Quick Access Toolbar
01:53 6. Minimize the Ribbon
02:01 7. Switch to Draft View
02:09 8. Click or Drag the Zoom Slider
02:23 9. Keyboard Shortcuts List
02:47 10. Data Naming Considerations
03:07 11. Redefinition Warnings
03:26 12. Disable Regions
03:36 13. Matrices Quick Buttons
03:46 14. Separate Regions
03:55 15. Global Definitions
04:04 16. Read the Error Messages
04:26 17. Remove Space
04:35 18. Math & Text Formatting Tabs
04:45 19. Equation Break Operators
04:58 20. Areas & Area Protection
05:09 21. Collapse Areas by Right Clicking
05:28 22. Press F1 for In-Context Help Files
05:52 23. Chart Component for Custom Plots
06:28 24. Show Frame
06:44 25. Hide the Grid
06:50 26. Save as PDF