Overstike characters

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Bernard Liengme

In WordPerfect I can make an x with bar over the top (to denote average x
value) using the overstrike feature. If I save the WP doc and open it in
Word I still have the x-bar. But I cannot find how to make x-bar in Word.
Thanks for any help you can give.
 
Bernard,
For Word 2003, but I am sure Word 2002 or even Word 2000 have a similar
procedure.
Choose Insert - field - choose the EQ-field. Hit the field codes button ,
click on the options button, in the switch options look for the \O() switch
and add it to the field. Now type in between the parentheses (x;¯) and hit
OK.
That should do it.
Luc
 
Many thanks for the reply. I was no able to get the bar above the x (Word
2003). However, the technique is so long, one might just as well invoke the
Equation Editor directly.
Best wishes
 
Not at all, because once you have created the EQ field once, you save it as
AutoText (or even as an AutoCorrect entry) for ease of reuse. Though you
could also save an EE object as AutoText, there's no need to clutter your
document with OLE objects unnecessarily (they add to the complexity and the
likelihood of corruption).

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Many thanks for this info but I still cannot get it to work. I just get x;¯
to show in the doc after making the field EQ\O(x;¯). I know that debugging a
person's action by email is hard but can you think where I might be going
wrong?
I even tried CTRL+F9
Also I used the option the shade fields so I know I have actually inserted a
field. Maybe someone could send me (private email - omit TRUENORTH) a doc
with an example of x-bar

Thanks again
 
Bernard,

You need to use {EQ\O(x,¯)} where the { } are inserted using Ctrl+F9 and
with a comma separating the x and the ¯ rather than a semi-colon.

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Wonderful! Why did I not try that - I tried removing semicolon!
I should have noted that Luc who replied first was from Europe and in Excel
Europeans the semicolon is used where we use comma.
Many, many thanks
 
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