Glad I could be of assistance (eventually).

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"jayno55" wrote in message
...
hey ho, ignore my last message Suzanne - couldn't resist spending more
time
on it this morning and have now got it all working excellently and my new
characters are safely banked in Autotext.
Please enjoy your day. You've helped a stranger (from the UK)!
jayno55 :-))

"jayno55" wrote:

I hope so. I'll have to try it next weekend though to see. I have to do
the
day job for the next few days! I'll let you know how it goes when I come
back
to it. j

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

I assume you can apply the usual Raised/Lowered font formatting to it.

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"jayno55" wrote in message
...
Yes I have managed it now, Suzanne. Need to do some fine tuning in
the
formatting though, as the line is a bit low and cuts into the top of
the
letter, which I don't want. Once I have figured all that, I reckon I
can
autotext it and I should be home and dry.
Cheers, jayno55

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

You should be able to do this in Word 97 and above. In the Insert
|
Symbol
dialog, scroll to the Combining Diacritical Marks character subset
and
then
look for the symbol.

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"jayno55" wrote in message
...
Thankyou Suzanne. I think I understand the process now, but my
version
of
Word seems to be too old to get exactly where I'm trying to get
to, as
it
has
no box into which I can type the glyph reference 030D. I presume
I
need to
upgrade my version of Word to solve this. Meanwhile I have a
friend
who is
also interested and he has a new PC and more recent software. We
may
try
to
sort this on his system first, then, if I may, I will come back
to you
if
I
have any remaining questions. jayno55 :-)

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

The reference to an EQ field is explained in the article I
cited,
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm. A macron is a
"long
mark," a
short *horizontal* line. You can find the Combining Vertical
Line
Above
at
glyph 030D (in the Combining Diacritical Marks character
subset) as
stated.
If you have Word 2002 or 2003, you can insert is by typing
030D,
then
pressing Alt+X.

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"jayno55" wrote in message
...
Thanks for quick reply Suzanne (sorry I made an error in
sending
the
question
twice!). Afraid I don't know what you mean by EQ fields or
macrons,
but an
acute accent won't work anyway, I do need a vertical. I have
accessed
'Add
features' via my MS2k Office disc to add Ariel Unicode MS to
my
system.
But
when I open Insert/Symbol/Ariel Unicode MS I can't find
"combining
vertical
line above" in the scroll down 'subset' menu. There is a
subset
called
"combinging diacritics (symbols)" and another called
"combining
half
marks"
but neither of these includes a vertical dash. I can see
vertical
dashes
(e.g. in 'Box drawing', 'Block elements' and 'Geometric
shapes'),
but
if I
insert them into a document they simply appear on their own
in a
letter
space. I cannot see how to insert them over an actual
letter.
Presumably
there is a procedure one uses that I simply don't know
about? I'm
also
unfamiliar with terms you use like 030D, or where to find
these?
Can
you
get
me any further? Appreciate your taking time on this. jayno55
:-)

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm. Note
that
Unicode
character 02C9, though not a combining diacritic, works
well
with an
EQ
\o
field as a macron (though there are several other macron
or
overbar
characters). Oh, wait, you want a *vertical* dash? Hmm.
You're
sure
an
acute
accent (character 0301) wouldn't do? I don't think there's
anything
in
the
"(normal text)" character set that's going to work.
Perhaps 030D
in
Arial
Unicode MS (Combining Vertical Line Above)? That won't
even
require
an
EQ
field.

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"jayno55" wrote in
message
...
I am involved in typing romanised versions of sanskrit
words
for
people
who
do chanting of sanskrit verses. When a part of a word is
chanted
at a
higher
note than normal this is signified by marking a short
vertical
line
(the
equivalent of a vertical 'dash') directly above the
given
letter.
I
want
to
know how to do this as a Text (superscript?) procedure
in
Word. I
don't
want
to use Draw as the solution.

I have Word 2000 v.9.0.2720