Custom (medical?) fonts for PowerPoint.

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I have friend who asked me the following question. She is going to
need to use these symbols on a regular basis, so the most streamlined
method would be the most helpful.

Any thoughts on accompishing her goal? Thanks!

Hi,

I need to make the letter c with the _ on top of the c in
powerpoint.........help!

The c with a line on the top is a medical symbol, meaning "with".

I am also going to need an A a P and an S with the lines.

Have looked for medical fonts but have yet to find any.
 
DerbyDad03 said:
I have friend who asked me the following question. She is going to
need to use these symbols on a regular basis, so the most streamlined
method would be the most helpful.

Any thoughts on accompishing her goal? Thanks!

Hi,

I need to make the letter c with the _ on top of the c in
powerpoint.........help!

The c with a line on the top is a medical symbol, meaning "with".

I am also going to need an A a P and an S with the lines.

Have looked for medical fonts but have yet to find any.
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FYI the c with a _ above is actually a very very old abbrevation. The _
above (actually it is more usually a ~) signified the dropping of letters
from a word. What you refer to is a standard abbreviation for the Latin
word "cum" meaning "with".

Chris
 
I have friend who asked me the following question.   She is going to
need to use these symbols on a regular basis, so the most streamlined
method would be the most helpful.

Any thoughts on accompishing her goal? Thanks!

Hi,

I need to make the letter c with the _ on top of the c in
powerpoint.........help!

The c with a line on the top is a medical symbol, meaning "with".

I am also going to need an A a P and an S with the lines.

Have looked for medical fonts but have yet to find any.
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OP Here. Just found the following at
http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/excel-chart/10900/overline-in-Excel
which seems to work in PowerPoint also. I'll suggest it to my friend:

"Before you type the character for which you
want the overbar, change the font to Symbol.

To create the bar, type the ` character (accent
grave, may be above the Tab key)

Then, stay in Symbol font, or switch to a different
font, and type the character that has the overbar."
 
Start PPT and choose Insert, Symbol.

For the font, choose:
MS Reference Sans Serif

For Subset, choose
Private Reference Area

Then poke around a bit.  Looks like there's an A, C, P and S with
overbars.







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Thanks.

I don't have access to her machine but I'm running Office 2003 Pro.

The closest I can come to doing what you suggest is:

Private Use Area not Private Reference Area

Unless I missed it, I didn't see a lower case c with the overbar.

I found overbars for A, a, C, P, p, S and s but not c.
 
Start PPT and choose Insert, Symbol.
For the font, choose:
MS Reference Sans Serif
For Subset, choose
Private Reference Area
Then poke around a bit.  Looks like there's an A, C, P and S with
overbars.






Private Use Area it is.  Brainspasm-induced typo at this end.  

I guess there's no l/c c+overbar.

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Thanks for checking!

I think the Font change to Symbols and the use of the ' character I
mentioned earlier should work for her. You can get an overbar on every
letter, symbol, wingbat and dingwing with that method. ;-)
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