Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
How do I overline a character ?
the tool bar has a button to underline but I cannot find where or how to overline
There is no button. Nor is there a command to do so.
There are two methods for a single character. 1 Get fancy with Mac's
Character Palette. Either the character you want has a variant with a
bar over the top - for example LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH MACRON Unicode
0101, or
Or 2. you can build the character with EQ fields where you displace a
bare macron to be over the top of the character before it. This is
messy to set up at first, but if you make the EQ field an autocorrect
item, it is not too painful.
F'rinstance, now it is all set up I type x(bar) to get a macron over
the x.
Hedre's how:-
I have an autocorrect which substitutes {EQ \d\ba(6)()}- for (bar)
Of course the {....} nonsense has to be done with an insert field
command and the - just after the } is really a macron inserted with the
character palette.
Setting up the autocorrect in Word 2004 is painful.
First select the field expression (including the trailing macron) in
your document. Choose Tools È Autocorrect. Then fill in the replace box
with (bar) or whatever you feel is a good memorable thing, my
convention is to wrap it in parentheses to keep it from working except
when I really want something tricky. I have lots of tricky.
Then choose formatted text, don't put anything in the 'with' field and
press add. It sounds crazy, but it works. You will see your EQ field
appear with * instead of { }.
Coupled with the fact that you can't touch your document while the
autocorrect pane is open, this is truly non-intuitive and in my view
buggy behaviour.
It is what makes Word such an addictive piece of software. It is like
playing the slots. (Pokies to the Oz mob) You keep pulling and pulling
and bashing your head against the horrible horrible inconsistent UI,
and one day all the money pours out into the tray, and one more time
you say to yourself, maybe I won't throw it away just yet.
(You wouldn't believe how easy it is to do this job in LaTeX. I'm
visiting here to up my curmudgeon level to 5)
If you want to make sense of this rant, I do recommend sitting down
somewhere quiet with a nice strong coffee and typing 'EQ fields' into
the help. When you get to 'displace', get another cup of coffee and try
to find a way to make the forward variation do anything sensible.
If you succeed, please post back here. I'm off for my third coffee.
One more thing. I see you are on Leopard. If you make full use of
Word's field codes, I recommend changing the shortcuts for Expose and
all its uncles and aunts to keep away from the F9 key. F9 opt-F9 and
cmd-F9 are indispensable when working with fields in Word.
