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Ocean Soul (registered Linux user 390755) Started conversation Apr 30, 2002
Does anyone here know a way to get "overline" effects in Word 2000, i.e. like underlining but above the letters? The Office help system was about as useful as ever....
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DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Apr 30, 2002
Underline, Strikthough, double Strikethough, no no overline available. sorry. even in word XP
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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese Posted Apr 30, 2002
perhaps the formula editor can help you there?
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Apr 30, 2002
Insert an in-line table containing just the words you want to overline, then set only the top border of the table to be visible. Hope that helps...?
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DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted May 1, 2002
Now thats a way... but it wouldn't be overline in the conventional sense unless you took the paragrph header and footer right down to zero.
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Ocean Soul (registered Linux user 390755) Posted May 2, 2002
Sounds like it could work. I'll give that a try now.
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DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted May 2, 2002
If not use a line 
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26199 Posted May 2, 2002
Or get rid of Word complete and switch to OpenOffice:
http://www.openoffice.org
Probably won't help put lines over things, but, just on general principles 
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DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted May 3, 2002
I have that on linux already 
Go SuSE, go SuSE
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- 1: Ocean Soul (registered Linux user 390755) (Apr 30, 2002)
- 2: DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) (Apr 30, 2002)
- 3: Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese (Apr 30, 2002)
- 4: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Apr 30, 2002)
- 5: DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) (May 1, 2002)
- 6: Ocean Soul (registered Linux user 390755) (May 2, 2002)
- 7: DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) (May 2, 2002)
- 8: 26199 (May 2, 2002)
- 9: DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) (May 3, 2002)
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