How do you enter the mathematical recurring symbol above a number?

[beckyboopboop]

Am trying to find a way of putting a dot above a number to show that it is
recurring, if it is possible?

 

[JoAnn Paules]

http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm

 

[grammatim]

Much easier than using an Overstrike equation field is to go to Insert
Symbol (as shown at the beginning of Suzanne's link), in the dropdown
at the upper right go to "Combining Diacritics," and you'll find a
"dot over" character that will sit on top of the letter that precedes
it. (You can also assign a keyboard shortcut to it if you're going to
use it a lot.) You'll also find several widths of overbars, and lots
of other accents for combinations that don't happen to be included in
specific fonts or in Unicode.

http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"

Am trying to find a way of putting a dot above a number to show that itis
recurring, if it is possible?-

 

[Maddude101]

A bit late for this but other people may find it usefull.
with microsoft word 2010
open the insert tab and look for the symbols button press it, not the down arrow the actual button.
then look for the accent button it will have an a with 2 dots above it press it and there you go, multiple options to place symbols above whatever text you chose

 

[Paula-From-Integer]

Good old 2010 and a great tip! I think you meant the equations button, rather than the symbol button but we get the idea.

If you are using this in a report, rather than just a table of numbers you will notice that it drops the font size down by between 0.5 and 1.5 points so if you are very fussy about preserving your line spacing you will need to adjust the formatting of the surrounding figures accordingly.

For a font size of 11 or 12, I needed to adjust the surrounding figures to 10.5 to match.