# [Tex/LaTex] LyX and Summation

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I am using the latest version of LyX and I am having trouble getting the limits to work at all. Ideally, I'd like to be able to place the summation limits above and below the sigma. However, at this point, I would settle for the less-pleasing-to-my-eyes variant of having the limits in the northeast and southeast corners of the symbol. However, try as I might, LyX does not want to place the limits anywhere. The "Change Limits Type" whose use I have seen recommended in various forums remains greyed out no matter what I do and the documentation does not provide any information I have yet found on how the process is even supposed to work in theory. On an admittedly editorial note, I am beginning to feel LyX is extremely lacking in documentation, which is unfortunate as I think it otherwise is a great application. Anyway, if Someone could point me in the direction of how to resolve this issue, I'd greatly appreciate it.

The problem might be that you first have to type at least one of lower or upper limit, or need to place the cursor at the \sum symbol to be able to change the limit type.
2. Type \sum, hit space.
3. Type _ as used for indices in math mode and type the lower limit (for example "i=1"), hit space.
4. Type ^ as used for exponents in math mode and type the upper limit (for example "10"), hit space.