[Sesquipedalian Sam]

I there a way in Word 2007 to get an "overline" that behaves line an
underline except over the characters, instead of under them?

I have experimented with special symbols and the overstrike field, but
I haven't been able to get any of them work as well as underlining.

[Jay Freedman]

Sesquipedalian Sam wrote:
I there a way in Word 2007 to get an "overline" that behaves line an
underline except over the characters, instead of under them?

I have experimented with special symbols and the overstrike field, but
I haven't been able to get any of them work as well as underlining.

See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm.

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Jay Freedman
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[Sesquipedalian Sam]

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:27:40 -0400, "Jay Freedman"
wrote:

Sesquipedalian Sam wrote:
I there a way in Word 2007 to get an "overline" that behaves line an
underline except over the characters, instead of under them?

I have experimented with special symbols and the overstrike field, but
I haven't been able to get any of them work as well as underlining.

See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm.

Thanks, Jay.

The EQ field with the \x switch seems like the best for my needs.
However, it seems to put a space before and after the field. The
article sways this can eb solved by deleting the final space from
inside the field. This does NOT work on my machine.

My field code looks like this {EQ \x\to(ABC)}.

In context, I have

This is ABC overbar:{EQ \x\to(ABC)}.

which generates

This is ABC overbar: ABC .

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

But Sam says he's already tried these techniques.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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Sesquipedalian Sam wrote:
I there a way in Word 2007 to get an "overline" that behaves line an
underline except over the characters, instead of under them?

I have experimented with special symbols and the overstrike field, but
I haven't been able to get any of them work as well as underlining.

See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so all may benefit.

[Sesquipedalian Sam]

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:47:26 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote:

But Sam says he's already tried these techniques.

I tried the overstrike method (EQ \o), but not the border method (EQ
\x\to).

It works OK, but I would like to get rid of those extra spaces.

You MVPs do a great job of making Word do things that ought to be
built in. I can't even begin to imagine how many hours you must spend
fiddling with these myriad options to get it to work. I guess MSFT is
never going to actually fix it. Broken As Designed (BAD).

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm not sure why you're getting the extra spaces; I've never had a problem
with the leading space, and deleting the trailing one (between the closing
parenthesis and the closing field brace) removes the space from the field
result.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Sesquipedalian Sam" wrote in message
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On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:27:40 -0400, "Jay Freedman"
wrote:

Sesquipedalian Sam wrote:
I there a way in Word 2007 to get an "overline" that behaves line an
underline except over the characters, instead of under them?

I have experimented with special symbols and the overstrike field, but
I haven't been able to get any of them work as well as underlining.

See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm.

Thanks, Jay.

The EQ field with the \x switch seems like the best for my needs.
However, it seems to put a space before and after the field. The
article sways this can eb solved by deleting the final space from
inside the field. This does NOT work on my machine.

My field code looks like this {EQ \x\to(ABC)}.

In context, I have

This is ABC overbar:{EQ \x\to(ABC)}.

which generates

This is ABC overbar: ABC .