Overstrike

[indago]

I am familiar with the process for creating overstrike with the older Microsoft Word systems -- Word
98, and etc. I haven't found the steps for overstike in the Word 2001. Where can I find that?

 

[Clive Huggan]

Dear [whoever],

Do you mean "strikethrough" -- that is, a horizontal line through the
selected text?

If so, this is how you apply a keyboard shortcut of Command-Shift-/ (which
used to be the default shortcut in Word 5.1) to strikethrough:

Tools menu -> Customize -> Commands -> Keyboard -> scroll the list under
"Categories" to "All commands" -> scroll the list under "Commands:" to
Strikethrough -> click in field under "Press new shortcut key:" and type
Command-Shift-/ [in the default, this command is allocated to Show Help
Tool, which you will probably not need.] Make sure that "Normal" appears in
the pop-down list titled "Save changes in:"

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
============================================================

 

[indago]

Dear [whoever],

Do you mean "strikethrough" -- that is, a horizontal line through the
selected text?

If so, this is how you apply a keyboard shortcut of Command-Shift-/ (which
used to be the default shortcut in Word 5.1) to strikethrough:

Tools menu -> Customize -> Commands -> Keyboard -> scroll the list under
"Categories" to "All commands" -> scroll the list under "Commands:" to
Strikethrough -> click in field under "Press new shortcut key:" and type
Command-Shift-/ [in the default, this command is allocated to Show Help
Tool, which you will probably not need.] Make sure that "Normal" appears in
the pop-down list titled "Save changes in:"

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
============================================================

I am familiar with the process for creating overstrike with the older
Microsoft Word systems -- Word
98, and etc. I haven't found the steps for overstike in the Word 2001. Where
can I find that?

Strikethrough is an item on the palette. Overstrike, as noted in the earlier Word manuals, is
putting one character over another. With a typewriter, you would print a character, then backspace,
and type another character over that one.

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Strikethrough is an item on the palette. Overstrike, as noted in the earlier
Word manuals, is putting one character over another. With a typewriter, you
would print a character, then backspace, and type another character over that
one.

I sure don't remember being able to do this in 98, but I *know* you can't do
it in 2001, at least not by backspacing and typing again. Are you trying to
type a macron over a letter for instance? If you had 2004, you would have
access to Unicode fonts which contain these characters and could insert them
via the Character Palette. If you plan on staying in 2001, then I believe
you'll have to use the method(s) described here:
<http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/word/macron.html>

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Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html>
My Site: <http://www.bethrosengard.com>

 

[indago]

I sure don't remember being able to do this in 98, but I *know* you can't do
it in 2001, at least not by backspacing and typing again. Are you trying to
type a macron over a letter for instance? If you had 2004, you would have
access to Unicode fonts which contain these characters and could insert them
via the Character Palette. If you plan on staying in 2001, then I believe
you'll have to use the method(s) described here:
<http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/word/macron.html>

--
***Please always reply to the newsgroup!***

Beth Rosengard
MacOffice MVP

Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html>
My Site: <http://www.bethrosengard.com>

It was Word version 5, and I was using it in '98. I haven't used an overstrike in a long time, and
I was wondering how it it done in Word 2001. I have Microsoft Office 2001.

The keyboard arguments for the overstrike, as noted in the Word 5 manual, are: .\O(character1,
character2). Character2 would be superimposed over character1, whatever they were.

 

[Elliott Roper]

I sure don't remember being able to do this in 98, but I *know* you can't do
it in 2001, at least not by backspacing and typing again. Are you trying to
type a macron over a letter for instance? If you had 2004, you would have
access to Unicode fonts which contain these characters and could insert them
via the Character Palette. If you plan on staying in 2001, then I believe
you'll have to use the method(s) described here:
<http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/word/macron.html>

--
***Please always reply to the newsgroup!***

Beth Rosengard
MacOffice MVP

Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html>
My Site: <http://www.bethrosengard.com>

It was Word version 5, and I was using it in '98. I haven't used an
overstrike in a long time, and
I was wondering how it it done in Word 2001. I have Microsoft Office 2001.

The keyboard arguments for the overstrike, as noted in the Word 5 manual,
are: .\O(character1,
character2). Character2 would be superimposed over character1, whatever they were.[/QUOTE]

Aha! *That* overstrike. It is still there, but messed up. It now has to
live inside an EQ field. See if typing "field overstrike" into the help
search is any use to you. It was one of the things that drove me nuts
when I moved from Word 5.1

(At any rate, that's how it is in Word 2004. I hung on grimly to Word 5
for ages)

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

It was Word version 5, and I was using it in '98. I haven't used an
overstrike in a long time, and
I was wondering how it it done in Word 2001. I have Microsoft Office 2001.

The keyboard arguments for the overstrike, as noted in the Word 5 manual, are:
.\O(character1,
character2). Character2 would be superimposed over character1, whatever they
were.

Hi Indago,

You can use an EQ field.
Hit command-F9 to enter field braces {}. Between the braces, type:
eq \O(x,¯)

Enter the ¯ by typing Shift-option-comma.

I assume substituting other characters for the x and the ¯ should also be
possible.

For a formatted text method that does not involve fields, see:
http://mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/word/macron.html