Overlining repeating digits

Captain Morgan · Oct 28, 2008

I'm not sure, how in MS Word (or works) does one add the bar to represent repeating digits after the decimal?

Surely modern word processes can easily handle such a basic requirement.

dpaterso · Oct 28, 2008

A Google search led to one site, led to another, and finally to:

http://www.wikihow.com/Overline-Characters-in-Microsoft-Word

Navigate your cursor to where you want to insert your overlined character or word.
Press CTRL + F9, which will insert a set of braces (this is command+F9 on a Mac)
Type in "EQ \x \to(P)" if you want to insert an overlined character above a P, otherwise replace P with your character or word.
Press Shift+F9 to get your character (option+F9 on a Mac).

This looks odd but it works. If for example you wanted the second 09 in 1.0909 to have a bar, you'd type (09) in place of the (P) in the example above. You don't include the quotes around EQ \x \to(P)

-Derek

Captain Morgan · Oct 28, 2008

Hmm, seems this does not work in MS Works. I really don't understand why MS made two crappy word processors, instead of just 1.

Guess I'll have to go to OpenOffice or something.

Thanks anyhow.

Overlining repeating digits

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