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    Jun 26, 2007, 09:02 PM
    Horizontal line above a character
    I want to be able to put a horizontal line above some letters such as "a" or "c" . Does anyone know how to do this? Tks Donna
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    Jun 26, 2007, 09:27 PM
    An accent over an "e" is ALT + 130.
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    Jun 26, 2007, 09:35 PM
    Sorry for two responses... here's a bunch for you:

    à, è, ì, ò, ù
    À, È, Ì, Ò, Ù CTRL+` (ACCENT GRAVE), the letter
    á, é, í, ó, ú, ý
    Á, É, Í, Ó, Ú, Ý CTRL+' (APOSTROPHE), the letter
    â, ê, î, ô, û
    Â, Ê, Î, Ô, Û CTRL+SHIFT+^ (CARET), the letter
    ã, ñ, õ
    Ã, Ñ, Õ CTRL+SHIFT+~ (TILDE), the letter
    ä, ë, ï, ö, ü, ÿ
    Ä, Ë, Ï, Ö, Ü, Ÿ CTRL+SHIFT+: (COLON), the letter
    å, Å CTRL+SHIFT+@, a or A
    æ, Æ CTRL+SHIFT+&, a or A
    œ, Œ CTRL+SHIFT+&, o or O
    ç, Ç CTRL+, (COMMA), c or C
    ð, Ð CTRL+' (APOSTROPHE), d or D
    ø, Ø CTRL+/, o or O
    ¿ ALT+CTRL+SHIFT+?
    ¡ ALT+CTRL+SHIFT+!
    ß CTRL+SHIFT+&, s
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    Jun 26, 2007, 09:57 PM
    Hi, grammadidi!

    I think that you have just provided a great answer! I may not be the original poster, but I would like to use what you have described above.

    I have tried the line over the "e" thing in Word, but am not able to get it to work. Are these commands for Word or another program? Do you highlight the letter that you want to accentuate in some way first?

    I am confused as to just how to make the commands work.

    Thank you!
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    Jun 26, 2007, 10:53 PM
    Hi Clough,
    I know for sure that if you hold the ALT key down and type 130 with the other hand while holding it down that it will work... as well as some of the others. I have used them in Office programs. Now, that being said, I used these shortcuts all the time on my desktop, on which I was running Windows Me and Microsoft Office 2001 I believe. I also used them in Outlook with no problem. However, my computer broke down and I am using a borrowed old laptop now that is running Windows 98. It won't let me do it in my emails or, for instance, in this text box. I wonder if you have to enable it?

    I am able to use them in Microsoft Office on this computer. I do know that Macs use different symbols. If you have an office assistant in Word, try asking about symbols and see what it comes up with. Remember though, you must hold down the ALT or the CONTROL keys (and the SHIFT too, if indicated) and keep them held down while you type the other figures.

    I use a few others too. ALT + 0176 will make degrees for temperatures, ALT + 0169 makes the Copyright symbol, ALT + 0174 is the Registered Trademark, ALT + 155 makes the cent sign on some computers, and ALT + 0153 makes the Trademark sign. Oh, and if you are using an Opera Broswer most of those shortcuts will not work! *sigh*

    Hope this helps!

    Oh, by the way... sometimes if you spell a French word in Outlook and enable spell check it will repair the word to show the accent even when you can't type it! Sometimes I send an email to myself so I can get all the accents and post the correct versions online! :)

    Didi
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    Jun 26, 2007, 10:56 PM
    Oh, and for clarification... you don't actually USE the "+" key.
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    Jun 26, 2007, 11:01 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Clough
    Hi, grammadidi!

    I think that you have just provided a great answer! I may not be the original poster, but I would like to use what you have described above.

    I have tried the line over the "e" thing in Word, but am not able to get it to work. Are these commands for Word or another program? Do you highlight the letter that you want to accentuate in some way first?

    I am confused as to just how to make the commands work.

    Thank you!
    Hi
    The codes that grammadidi listed work well. Unfortunately there is no code for the straight line over the c. That is my problem. The others work for what they are for. You would hold your Crtl+shift+~ at the same time, release and then hit your letter. etc.

    I ended up putting a _ on the blank line above the c but it wastes a line.

    Good luck
    Donna
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    Jun 27, 2007, 01:49 AM
    Okay, I have tried how to operate the codes so far, and have gotten some success. I will keep practicing at doing it.
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    Jun 27, 2007, 04:15 AM
    In windows you can always open character map (Programs>Accessories>System Tools>CharacterMap), this will give you access every character in every font you have installed.

    Then you can just copy and paste the character into your document.

    This does basically the same thing as Insert>Symbol in Word.

    I can't see a standard c with a line over it. I guess it is not used often enough to be included, you may be able to find specialised fonts online which may include this character.
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    Jul 13, 2007, 11:45 PM
    Hi
    There are a whole bunch of letters with the _ over them, its called a macron. As somebody said, it's in the character map. All character map have an escape sequence (sorry, I don't know what else to call them and ALT is used instead of ESC on modern machines). ALT+ doesn't do macron characters because they are beyond 255 in unicode. Ā ā Ē ē Ī ī Ō ō Ū ū
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    Sep 12, 2007, 11:14 AM
    It's not easy to do what's called an "overbar". You have to actually insert an "equation" field. If you are interested, here's how:

    1. Fire up MS Word

    2. Go to 'Insert' on the menu bar.

    3. Select 'Field'

    4. A window should pop up. Select 'Equations and Formulas' in Categories.

    5. Choose 'Eq' in Field names (or you can type Ctrl+F9). You will get brackets on your screen.

    6. In between the brackets, you have to type ( eq \o(c, ¯)
    Note: to get the overbar, you actually have to get it out of symbols. I cut and pasted it into the equation.

    When you're done it should look like this on your Word document: { ( eq \o(c, ¯) }



    Hit F9 or Alt F9, it will update and you will get the character "c" with an overbar.
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    Sep 4, 2010, 08:03 AM
    Adding the dash above the letters I was able to do that by going to the cell and clicking on the accent bar above the tab key and then I switch the font to symbol in my case I am looking for Y-bar but once I changed the font to something else it didn't work for me. My Y-bar looks like a fork with a line above it which does not look like the y-bar that I need. I tried creating the ybar in ms equation 3.0 and it work great but I can't copy it from there and put it on another sheet.
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    Feb 16, 2011, 08:05 AM
    Wonderful Reference is:

    ALT CODES REFERENCE SHEET (all Alt codes for symbols on 1 Page)
    Free Download from www.UsefulShortcuts.com
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    Nov 16, 2011, 12:18 AM
    Hello,

    The WikiHow site offers a way to do this in Microsoft Word at the following link:

    http://www.wikihow.com/Overline-Characters-in-Microsoft-Word

    For example to "overline" the character 'c', the procedure is to place the cursor at the point where you want the overlined 'c' and then 1.) type CTRL+F9 to auto-generate a set of special braces, 2.) type in "EQ /x /to( c )" inside the braces (without the double quotes, by the way), and finally 3.) type SHIFT+F9 to get the overlined character. Note that in the case of overlining 'c', you have to either put spaces around the 'c' in the parentheses (just as shown in the previous example), or turn off the auto-correction in Word, otherwise the character sequence (c) will produce a 'copyright' symbol: ©, and the "overlining" will not work.

    Enjoy,

    David
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    Dec 6, 2011, 08:28 AM
    One should be able to insert these characters from symbols (under the group Latin extended A)
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    Dec 9, 2011, 07:05 AM
    Nirmal,

    Sorry, but the Latin Extended A set only offers the overbar characters for the vowels: a, e, I, o and u, not for consonants, which the questioner specifically requested. Kind regards,

    David

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