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Interesting find, ZFR! Actually, that is the very same document my wife's place of work received. Now how do they get those characters? I wonder if it can be had on a machine other than Windows...

Wow, I stand corrected! I just glanced at that symbol table the 1st time I looked & assumed they were in there somewhere. You could either go with Callum's idea, or get a custom font created. I guess it depends on how often you think you'll be needing those characters.

Edit: Have you tried writing to Microsoft support?

[ 05-02-2006, 07:09 PM: Message edited by: VulcanRider ]

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Originally posted by Larry_OHF:
Interesting find, ZFR! Actually, that is the very same document my wife's place of work received. Now how do they get those characters? I wonder if it can be had on a machine other than Windows...

Anything is possible, however, my minor contribution to this thread was produced on a Linux rig.

LArry,

Try this link. A guide to creating overbars.... I didn't work through the example, but it looks like with some setup, it could be straightforward.

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Originally posted by Bungleau:
LArry,

Try this link. A guide to creating overbars.... I didn't work through the example, but it looks like with some setup, it could be straightforward.

That's it! I got it!

Taking from that website, this is basically what it says to do.

Go to: INSERT
Go to: FIELD
Select: EQ
Press: FIELD CODES
Go to: OPTIONS
Select: \O()
Select: ADD TO FIELD

* When you do this, the message box will display: EQ \O()
* Inside the (), write the letter you want to use, place a comma after it with no space, and then do the macron ALT+0175
* OK your way out of the two screens. 

Many thanks to you for finding that link! Pass me your address sometime and I'll send you a Christmas card or something. [img]smile.gif[/img]

I love Ironworks. There would have been no way I would have found that link no matter how much googling I did, and my wife and I tried before she suggested I ask one of you guys for help.

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Originally posted by Larry_OHF:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Bungleau:
LArry,

Try this link. A guide to creating overbars.... I didn't work through the example, but it looks like with some setup, it could be straightforward.

Guess what...the characters will not copy and paste into Excel where she was hoping to have them, nor will they even travel through e-mail. They only exist in Word where they are created, and will print directly from there.

Ah well...at least we got'em.

You can do it for excel. I just remembered, you can also do this using that tool which comes with word to insert mathematical symbols (integration, and so on...). You can have any character with a bar.

from word, Insert->object->Microsoft equation 3.0 and then play with it then. should work easily for excel too...

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Originally posted by ZFR:
You can do it for excel. I just remembered, you can also do this using that tool which comes with word to insert mathematical symbols (integration, and so on...). You can have any character with a bar.

from word, Insert->object->Microsoft equation 3.0 and then play with it then. should work easily for excel too...

I'll have my wife give it a try at work. Thanks!