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How do I get a character (e.g. q) with a dot above it?
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How do I get a character (e.g. q) with a dot above it?
The Advance field can do it for you. Choose Insert - Field and look for
Advance. Using a 12-point font, the following seems to do it, but you might need to experiment with the u and l values to get it exactly right: q{ ADVANCE \l 4 \u 7 }. The advance field (press Ctrl+F9 to insert the {} field braces) positions the character that follows them using different switches. \l moves the character to the left, and \u moves it up. So, the field shown here moves the following character (a period in this case) 4 points to the left and 7 points up, which should be somewhere in the neighborhood above the q... at least when using a 12 point Calibri font. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Andy" wrote in message ... |
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How do I get a character (e.g. q) with a dot above it?
On Apr 16, 6:31*am, Andy wrote:
A mathematical symbol, or an accented letter for e.g. Polish? |
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How do I get a character (e.g. q) with a dot above it?
It's a mathematical symbol.
I think the reply from Herb has solved my problem. Thanks for replying anyway. "grammatim" wrote: On Apr 16, 6:31 am, Andy wrote: A mathematical symbol, or an accented letter for e.g. Polish? |
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How do I get a character (e.g. q) with a dot above it?
Thanks for your help Herb.
I think it's solved my problem. "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: The Advance field can do it for you. Choose Insert - Field and look for Advance. Using a 12-point font, the following seems to do it, but you might need to experiment with the u and l values to get it exactly right: q{ ADVANCE \l 4 \u 7 }. The advance field (press Ctrl+F9 to insert the {} field braces) positions the character that follows them using different switches. \l moves the character to the left, and \u moves it up. So, the field shown here moves the following character (a period in this case) 4 points to the left and 7 points up, which should be somewhere in the neighborhood above the q... at least when using a 12 point Calibri font. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Andy" wrote in message ... |
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How do I get a character (e.g. q) with a dot above it?
You can use the Equation Editor to produce it as well. Using the equation
editor can be kind of clunky if it's just the single dotted q in isolation, but is the way to go if the dotted q is part of a larger mathematical expression. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Andy" wrote in message ... It's a mathematical symbol. I think the reply from Herb has solved my problem. Thanks for replying anyway. "grammatim" wrote: On Apr 16, 6:31 am, Andy wrote: A mathematical symbol, or an accented letter for e.g. Polish? |
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How do I get a character (e.g. q) with a dot above it?
See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm.
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Andy" wrote in message ... |
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How do I get a character (e.g. q) with a dot above it?
Hi Andy,
You can use an EQ field coded as {EQ \o (.,q)}. To achieve the desired result, superscript the dot and subscript the q. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] ------------------------- "Andy" wrote in message ... |
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How do I get a character (e.g. q) with a dot above it?
If you do it that way, your letter will be much smaller than the
surrounding text. You can use the Overstrike field as macropod shows, but then raise the period on the second panel of Format Font, or if that isn't precise enough, by nesting another field that moves a character up/down without changing its size; if the dot should be bigger than a period (I think it should?), then use the centered dot character rather than the period character. If you wanted to put a dot over a letter (as in Polish or Latvian [IIRC]) and don't have a font with Polish or Latvian characters, you can go to the "combining diacritics" part of a well-endowed font like Tahoma and find the correct diacritic. (Once it's in your text, you can try changing it to the font you're actually using. If the character doesn't happen to be there, it'll stay Tahoma.) On Apr 16, 10:21*am, "macropod" wrote: Hi Andy, You can use an EQ field coded as {EQ \o (.,q)}. To achieve the desired result, superscript the dot and subscript the q. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] ------------------------- "Andy" wrote in ...- |
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