How to 'overline' text?

[McBad]

Hi, I can easily high-light text and underline it (normal tool bar button).
I can also double underline it, or put a strike through line right through
it ( Format | Font...).

But, I cannot for the life of me find out how to put a line across above the
text! Does anyone know how to do this, an 'overline'?

(I've found out how to do it for a paragraph but I just want to do it for
selected words in the text. A fudge I've used is to put underline on the
line above, but this is not a good solution and hard to control neatly.)

Thanks for any assistance.

Cheers,

M.

 

[GM6TRS]

Hi, I can easily high-light text and underline it (normal tool bar button).
I can also double underline it, or put a strike through line right through
it ( Format | Font...).

But, I cannot for the life of me find out how to put a line across above the
text! Does anyone know how to do this, an 'overline'?

(I've found out how to do it for a paragraph but I just want to do it for
selected words in the text. A fudge I've used is to put underline on the
line above, but this is not a good solution and hard to control neatly.)

Thanks for any assistance.

Cheers,

M.

AFAIK it's not available in the sense that underline, strike through etc
are. If I wanted to overline a word, I'd use 'Line' on the 'Drawing'
toolbar. Needs a steady hand and a stable mouse, especially with long
words

You'd also need to disable 'Snap to Grid', or make the vertical
increment very small.

- -
Martin

 

[PeterMcC]

McBad wrote in

Thanks Martin. In the context of what I'm doing (company financial
reports where totals need over-lines) what you write is not very
reassuring... There are a lot of them to do on these documents and my
hand isn't that steady at the best of times!

If you draw the line whilst holding down Shift, that will at least give you
a straight horizontal line. You could do one line and then Ctrl-drag it to
the other locations and change its size as necessary or - as there can't be
that many different lengths required for figures - build yourself a little
collection of lines to copy and paste. Far from ideal but, perhaps, better
than nothing.

 

[Greg Marlowe]

AFAIK it's not available in the sense that underline, strike through etc
are. If I wanted to overline a word, I'd use 'Line' on the 'Drawing'
toolbar. Needs a steady hand and a stable mouse, especially with long
words

You'd also need to disable 'Snap to Grid', or make the vertical
increment very small.

- -
Martin

Have you thought about using a table if this includes a column of
figures
that are totalled? Then you can use the "Format->Borders and Shading"
to
add a line (or a double line) to the top of the cell.

A two-column table would allow description and amount with the amounts
lining up.

My 2 cents.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

How to create a character with a bar over it
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm

(If this works, thank Suzanne.)

 

[GM6TRS]

McBad wrote in


If you draw the line whilst holding down Shift, that will at least give you
a straight horizontal line... <snip>

Oh yeah - so it does. Cor, wish I'd known about that before - would have
saved an awful lot of bother. Thanks Peter!

- -
Martin

 

[McBad]

Thank you all for replying to this thread, I now have several approaches to
try when I get back to work early next week.

Best regards,

Malcolm.

How to create a character with a bar over it
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm

(If this works, thank Suzanne.)

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

Hi, I can easily high-light text and underline it (normal tool bar
button).
I can also double underline it, or put a strike through line right through
it ( Format | Font...).

But, I cannot for the life of me find out how to put a line across above
the
text! Does anyone know how to do this, an 'overline'?

(I've found out how to do it for a paragraph but I just want to do it for
selected words in the text. A fudge I've used is to put underline on the
line above, but this is not a good solution and hard to control neatly.)

Thanks for any assistance.

Cheers,

M.

 

[PeterMcC]

GM6TRS wrote in

Oh yeah - so it does. Cor, wish I'd known about that before - would
have saved an awful lot of bother. Thanks Peter!

Yes - but I'll bet your documents will lose that special "Martin" feel now