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I need a way to insert a bar sign over a number
I am typing my math problems in Word and need to put a bar symbol over a
number to indicate it is a repeating number in the problems answer. I can find a bar, but not how to get it over the number. I know it can be done, because I see it in my text books. Any suggestions? Thanks, RKB |
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I need a way to insert a bar sign over a number
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. On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:35:03 -0800, redkcir wrote: I am typing my math problems in Word and need to put a bar symbol over a number to indicate it is a repeating number in the problems answer. I can find a bar, but not how to get it over the number. I know it can be done, because I see it in my text books. Any suggestions? Thanks, RKB |
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I need a way to insert a bar sign over a number
Missing from that article is the simplest way of all: use the
Combining Diacritic Overline character that you'll find in Insert Symbol, Unicode no. 0305. (To get it just once, type 0305 Alt+x, and it goes over the preceding letter.) There's a Double Overline at 033F. But if you go to them in the Insert Symbol panel, you can assign a keyboard shortcut to them, of your own choosing. On Mar 1, 12:29*pm, Jay Freedman wrote: Seehttp://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. On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:35:03 -0800, redkcir wrote: I am typing my math problems in Word and need to put a bar symbol over a number to indicate it is a repeating number in the problems answer. I can find a bar, but not how to get it over the number. I know it can be done, because I see it in my text books. Any suggestions? Thanks, RKB- |
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I need a way to insert a bar sign over a number
First of all, 0305 does not exist in Times New Roman or Arial, so it can't
be inserted from Insert | Symbol without choosing something other than "(normal text)" in a default Word 2003 Blank Document. Second, if I insert it using 0305, Alt+X, it is not centered over my character, so I would not consider it satisfactory. Moreover, dealing with characters combined in this way can be very awkward (can't edit the character without deleting the overline). I do mention combining diacritics in http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/C...haracters.htm; some of them work better than the overline. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... Missing from that article is the simplest way of all: use the Combining Diacritic Overline character that you'll find in Insert Symbol, Unicode no. 0305. (To get it just once, type 0305 Alt+x, and it goes over the preceding letter.) There's a Double Overline at 033F. But if you go to them in the Insert Symbol panel, you can assign a keyboard shortcut to them, of your own choosing. On Mar 1, 12:29 pm, Jay Freedman wrote: Seehttp://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. On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:35:03 -0800, redkcir wrote: I am typing my math problems in Word and need to put a bar symbol over a number to indicate it is a repeating number in the problems answer. I can find a bar, but not how to get it over the number. I know it can be done, because I see it in my text books. Any suggestions? Thanks, RKB- |
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I need a way to insert a bar sign over a number
It's in both those fonts, in Vista/2007, between the macron U0304 and
the breve U0306. (OP didn't specify his version.) The way Word2007 and Vista interact with OpenType has been improved since previous versions, and I get properly centered overbars using that character (over both capitals and lowercase). Word treats the letter as a unit character for editing -- italics, deleting, etc. As you can see in the two examples you commented on today, when The Others address this question, they send people to your Overbar article rather than your Combine Characters article. On Mar 7, 2:45*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: First of all, 0305 does not exist in Times New Roman or Arial, so it can't be inserted from Insert | Symbol without choosing something other than "(normal text)" in a default Word 2003 Blank Document. Second, if I insert it using 0305, Alt+X, it is not centered over my character, so I would not consider it satisfactory. Moreover, dealing with characters combined in this way can be very awkward (can't edit the character without deleting the overline). I do mention combining diacritics inhttp://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/CombineCharacters.htm;some of them work better than the overline. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... Missing from that article is the simplest way of all: use the Combining Diacritic Overline character that you'll find in Insert Symbol, Unicode no. 0305. (To get it just once, type 0305 Alt+x, and it goes over the preceding letter.) There's a Double Overline at 033F. But if you go to them in the Insert Symbol panel, you can assign a keyboard shortcut to them, of your own choosing. On Mar 1, 12:29 pm, Jay Freedman wrote: Seehttp://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. On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:35:03 -0800, redkcir wrote: I am typing my math problems in Word and need to put a bar symbol over a number to indicate it is a repeating number in the problems answer. I can find a bar, but not how to get it over the number. I know it can be done, because I see it in my text books. Any suggestions? Thanks, RKB-- |
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I need a way to insert a bar sign over a number
CombineCharacters is a newer article that hasn't made it over the awareness
threshold of a lot of those who answer questions. g I was assuming from your post that probably the new Office 2007 fonts do include these characters, but of course even a lot of Word 2007 users are still stubbornly using TNR and Arial (with some justification). I would imagine that the alignment of the diacritics must be improved in Calibri and Cambria, but it is definitely not acceptable in TNR. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... It's in both those fonts, in Vista/2007, between the macron U0304 and the breve U0306. (OP didn't specify his version.) The way Word2007 and Vista interact with OpenType has been improved since previous versions, and I get properly centered overbars using that character (over both capitals and lowercase). Word treats the letter as a unit character for editing -- italics, deleting, etc. As you can see in the two examples you commented on today, when The Others address this question, they send people to your Overbar article rather than your Combine Characters article. On Mar 7, 2:45 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: First of all, 0305 does not exist in Times New Roman or Arial, so it can't be inserted from Insert | Symbol without choosing something other than "(normal text)" in a default Word 2003 Blank Document. Second, if I insert it using 0305, Alt+X, it is not centered over my character, so I would not consider it satisfactory. Moreover, dealing with characters combined in this way can be very awkward (can't edit the character without deleting the overline). I do mention combining diacritics inhttp://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/CombineCharacters.htm;some of them work better than the overline. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... Missing from that article is the simplest way of all: use the Combining Diacritic Overline character that you'll find in Insert Symbol, Unicode no. 0305. (To get it just once, type 0305 Alt+x, and it goes over the preceding letter.) There's a Double Overline at 033F. But if you go to them in the Insert Symbol panel, you can assign a keyboard shortcut to them, of your own choosing. On Mar 1, 12:29 pm, Jay Freedman wrote: Seehttp://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. On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:35:03 -0800, redkcir wrote: I am typing my math problems in Word and need to put a bar symbol over a number to indicate it is a repeating number in the problems answer. I can find a bar, but not how to get it over the number. I know it can be done, because I see it in my text books. Any suggestions? Thanks, RKB-- |
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I need a way to insert a bar sign over a number
I haven't used the C-fonts (except for the unavoidable CambriaMath
when I needed some symbolic logic signs); I use TNR because it's the only serif font that reliably contains all the phonetic and diacritic characters (even Gentium, made for linguists, doesn't handle all the combining diacritics correctly), and it really does combine the diacritics properly. On Mar 7, 6:04*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: CombineCharacters is a newer article that hasn't made it over the awareness threshold of a lot of those who answer questions. g I was assuming from your post that probably the new Office 2007 fonts do include these characters, but of course even a lot of Word 2007 users are still stubbornly using TNR and Arial (with some justification). I would imagine that the alignment of the diacritics must be improved in Calibri and Cambria, but it is definitely not acceptable in TNR. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... It's in both those fonts, in Vista/2007, between the macron U0304 and the breve U0306. (OP didn't specify his version.) The way Word2007 and Vista interact with OpenType has been improved since previous versions, and I get properly centered overbars using that character (over both capitals and lowercase). Word treats the letter as a unit character for editing -- italics, deleting, etc. As you can see in the two examples you commented on today, when The Others address this question, they send people to your Overbar article rather than your Combine Characters article. On Mar 7, 2:45 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: First of all, 0305 does not exist in Times New Roman or Arial, so it can't be inserted from Insert | Symbol without choosing something other than "(normal text)" in a default Word 2003 Blank Document. Second, if I insert it using 0305, Alt+X, it is not centered over my character, so I would not consider it satisfactory. Moreover, dealing with characters combined in this way can be very awkward (can't edit the character without deleting the overline). I do mention combining diacritics inhttp://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/CombineCharacters.htm;someof them work better than the overline. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message .... Missing from that article is the simplest way of all: use the Combining Diacritic Overline character that you'll find in Insert Symbol, Unicode no. 0305. (To get it just once, type 0305 Alt+x, and it goes over the preceding letter.) There's a Double Overline at 033F. But if you go to them in the Insert Symbol panel, you can assign a keyboard shortcut to them, of your own choosing. On Mar 1, 12:29 pm, Jay Freedman wrote: Seehttp://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. On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:35:03 -0800, redkcir wrote: I am typing my math problems in Word and need to put a bar symbol over a number to indicate it is a repeating number in the problems answer. I can find a bar, but not how to get it over the number. I know it can be done, because I see it in my text books. Any suggestions? Thanks, RKB--- |
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I need a way to insert a bar sign over a number
In that case, I guess the reason you're seeing a different TNR is that there
is a new version in Vista (since I have Office 2007 installed [on XP] but still have the old version of TNR), and it is almost as risky to assume a user is running Vista as to assume he is using Word 2007. In any event, the version of TNR I have does *not* include those overlines as combining diacritics, and the ones it does use (presumably from Arial Unicode MS or the like) do not align correctly with TNR. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... I haven't used the C-fonts (except for the unavoidable CambriaMath when I needed some symbolic logic signs); I use TNR because it's the only serif font that reliably contains all the phonetic and diacritic characters (even Gentium, made for linguists, doesn't handle all the combining diacritics correctly), and it really does combine the diacritics properly. On Mar 7, 6:04 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: CombineCharacters is a newer article that hasn't made it over the awareness threshold of a lot of those who answer questions. g I was assuming from your post that probably the new Office 2007 fonts do include these characters, but of course even a lot of Word 2007 users are still stubbornly using TNR and Arial (with some justification). I would imagine that the alignment of the diacritics must be improved in Calibri and Cambria, but it is definitely not acceptable in TNR. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... It's in both those fonts, in Vista/2007, between the macron U0304 and the breve U0306. (OP didn't specify his version.) The way Word2007 and Vista interact with OpenType has been improved since previous versions, and I get properly centered overbars using that character (over both capitals and lowercase). Word treats the letter as a unit character for editing -- italics, deleting, etc. As you can see in the two examples you commented on today, when The Others address this question, they send people to your Overbar article rather than your Combine Characters article. On Mar 7, 2:45 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: First of all, 0305 does not exist in Times New Roman or Arial, so it can't be inserted from Insert | Symbol without choosing something other than "(normal text)" in a default Word 2003 Blank Document. Second, if I insert it using 0305, Alt+X, it is not centered over my character, so I would not consider it satisfactory. Moreover, dealing with characters combined in this way can be very awkward (can't edit the character without deleting the overline). I do mention combining diacritics inhttp://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/CombineCharacters.htm;someof them work better than the overline. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... Missing from that article is the simplest way of all: use the Combining Diacritic Overline character that you'll find in Insert Symbol, Unicode no. 0305. (To get it just once, type 0305 Alt+x, and it goes over the preceding letter.) There's a Double Overline at 033F. But if you go to them in the Insert Symbol panel, you can assign a keyboard shortcut to them, of your own choosing. On Mar 1, 12:29 pm, Jay Freedman wrote: Seehttp://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. On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:35:03 -0800, redkcir wrote: I am typing my math problems in Word and need to put a bar symbol over a number to indicate it is a repeating number in the problems answer. I can find a bar, but not how to get it over the number. I know it can be done, because I see it in my text books. Any suggestions? Thanks, RKB--- |
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