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Overline or Overbar Font
With reference to my previous question regarding a line on the top of text.
How can I create an overline font which is similar to the underline font, except that the line must be on top of text and not under the text. Can you please assist |
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There is no way to do this with a font. The closest you can get
is to put a border on top of the cell, but this will extend the entire column width, not just the width of the text. -- Cordially, Chip Pearson Microsoft MVP - Excel Pearson Software Consulting, LLC www.cpearson.com "Etienne Erasmus" wrote in message ... With reference to my previous question regarding a line on the top of text. How can I create an overline font which is similar to the underline font, except that the line must be on top of text and not under the text. Can you please assist |
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Dear Chip
Can Microsoft create this type of Overline font as an upgrade for the Office Package? Thanking you Etienne Erasmus "Chip Pearson" wrote: There is no way to do this with a font. The closest you can get is to put a border on top of the cell, but this will extend the entire column width, not just the width of the text. -- Cordially, Chip Pearson Microsoft MVP - Excel Pearson Software Consulting, LLC www.cpearson.com "Etienne Erasmus" wrote in message ... With reference to my previous question regarding a line on the top of text. How can I create an overline font which is similar to the underline font, except that the line must be on top of text and not under the text. Can you please assist |
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I doubt that MS will create either such a font or an overline format,
unless they perceive a widespread need for it. There are font editors for sale that would allow you to create your own custom character sets. http://www.fontlab.com/index.php lists several. When I looked for one over 10 years ago, they were very expensive (specialized market). Now there appears to be one that is open source http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ I cannot recommend any, since my experience is extremely dated. Depending on what you are trying to do, you might be able to get by with far less work. Historically, most such requests in these newsgroups have been to write statistical equations, where the bar over the letter was shorthand for an average. For equations, the Equation editor is easier and more flexible (Insert|Object|Microsoft Equation). xbar is Alt-0214 in the Math Ext font from http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/wptoword.html xbar is Alt-0120 in the MS Reference 1 font Jerry Etienne Erasmus wrote: Dear Chip Can Microsoft create this type of Overline font as an upgrade for the Office Package? Thanking you Etienne Erasmus "Chip Pearson" wrote: There is no way to do this with a font. The closest you can get is to put a border on top of the cell, but this will extend the entire column width, not just the width of the text. -- Cordially, Chip Pearson Microsoft MVP - Excel Pearson Software Consulting, LLC www.cpearson.com "Etienne Erasmus" wrote in message ... With reference to my previous question regarding a line on the top of text. How can I create an overline font which is similar to the underline font, except that the line must be on top of text and not under the text. Can you please assist |
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There is a way to do this with one character at a time. It does not work with a block of text, however, because a default space is added before each character.
You can read about it he http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forum.as...rline-in-Excel |
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