letter with sign above it

[Martin Müller]

Dear expert users,

is there a possibility in Word2000 to set a letter with a
large, relatively thick, dot above it? The dot shall be
larger than those to be found within the list of symbols,
also larger than that found in the formel editor.
Thank you
Martin

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Find the sort of dot you want (it need not be in the position you need) and
then use the EQ \o (overstrike) field to combine it with your letter (see
the "Field codes: EQ (Equation) field" Help topic for more detail). After
creating the field, you can edit the field code directly to raise the dot
(Character Spacing tab of Format Font) as needed to give the correct
appearance. Once you have the character as you want it, save it as an
AutoCorrect entry.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You seem to have changed the question. I thought you wanted to put a dot
over a letter? If you want to put a letter above another letter (that is,
higher rather than superimposed), you need the EQ \a field. But if you want
to superimpose a on b, you would use { EQ \o (a,b) }.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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Thank you for the reply, but could you please give a
concrete example of how to put an 'a' on top of a 'b'? I
do manage to insert a field with square root, because in
the online-help such an example is given, but do not
succeed so with the overstrike function.
Thank you
Martin

 

[Martin Müller]

Thank you very much for the response; I now think I could
settle the problem, which includes a feature that might be
interesting for a broader public.
First of all, I did mean to place a dot above a letter as
a sign of a radical in a chemical formula. Since my
English is limited, I should have said 'on top of', i.e.
in direction upwards the paper, not superimposing it.
The solution that I have found now, however, utilizes the
field function 'overwrite', with EQ \O(), because the
matrix-simulation with EQ \A() would break the continuous
horizontal line of the running text. Thus the way is to
state EQ \O(dot;letter) with the dot superscript by,
approximately, 6pt.
The important feature in it is, that between the
arguments, 'dot' and 'letter', there must be a semicolon,
NOT a comma! In the online-help as well as the manual a
comma is required, which does not work and caused a good
time of puzzling. Please mind, that I am using a German
version of the program, I do not know, if there might be
differences among the versions.
Best regards
Martin

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Yes, fields in the German version of Word do usually require a semicolon
where the English version uses a comma. I should have realized this, but
also you might have gotten a better answer from the beginning if you'd
posted in microsoft.public.de.word.

I did understand that you wanted the dot above the letter, and the way to do
this is by superimposing an overdot (or some other dot) using the overstrike
field. It was your introduction of a and b that confused me, as well as your
reference to a radical (which is produced by the \r switch in the EQ field).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

Thank you very much for the response; I now think I could
settle the problem, which includes a feature that might be
interesting for a broader public.
First of all, I did mean to place a dot above a letter as
a sign of a radical in a chemical formula. Since my
English is limited, I should have said 'on top of', i.e.
in direction upwards the paper, not superimposing it.
The solution that I have found now, however, utilizes the
field function 'overwrite', with EQ \O(), because the
matrix-simulation with EQ \A() would break the continuous
horizontal line of the running text. Thus the way is to
state EQ \O(dot;letter) with the dot superscript by,
approximately, 6pt.
The important feature in it is, that between the
arguments, 'dot' and 'letter', there must be a semicolon,
NOT a comma! In the online-help as well as the manual a
comma is required, which does not work and caused a good
time of puzzling. Please mind, that I am using a German
version of the program, I do not know, if there might be
differences among the versions.
Best regards
Martin