Character over a character in MS Word

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From: Charlie Mingo
Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 22:56

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dmoon@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Doksu Moon) writes:

DM> In Microsoft Word 4.0 how does one go about printing one character over
DM> another?  More specifically, I want some of my vowels to have macrons (the
DM> characters that indicates that the letter is a long vowel) over them, but I
DM> don't know how.  I have noticed that command-option-comma, in most character
DM> sets, generates the macron mark, but I just can't figure out how to make
DM> it appear over a vowel.

    Read the manual (or help) section on Formulas.

    You need Overstrike:  Type <cmd-opt>-\ O(char1,char2)  You may have to type
<cmd>-Y to view the result.


 * Origin: mingo@well.sf.ca.us  mingo@cup.portal.com  (1:109/421.4218)

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