Friday, January 1, 2010

No x-bar symbol in Microsoft Word 2007: Create your own

It's almost new year and I need to submit my exp report to my superior as soon as possible. When statistical calculation involves, symbol such as overbar (¯) on an alphabet is hardly avoided. As an advanced Microsoft Word user, I agree that MW2007 works way better than MW2003. However, failing to find x-bar symbol in MW2007 was way too frustrating. How could such an important symbol like x-bar isn't included in MW2007 symbols?

I believe I'm not the only one in this world facing this problem.

For that reason I googled for solution. It takes less than one minute to realize that this problem has been addressed in the internet for quite sometimes. A general guideline to create an overbar has been quite well described by Suzanne S. Barnhill in CREATING OVERBAR.

The best solution has been posted by Christie Lewis in Youtube. I like her blog too. Her blog has been all about Microsoft Office.
http://officehowto.blogspot.com/

Short Video: Inserting an X-bar Symbol in Word

I learned my lesson well, alhamdulellah. Now I can create not just x-bar but I can personalize many other symbols which are not included in MW2007. It's easy, you can do it too.

11 comments:

  1. MOW'03 lagi. malas nk belajar benda baru. huhu. penerangan berkenaan xbar tu jelas sekali.

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  2. xper. MW2003 pun still okay. Cuma MW2007 ada byk new features & fadilatnyer.. hehe.

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  3. Today I have known about my sister problem's. She had a problem with word files. But luckily I entered the I-net and by chance detected - word repair tools. The software quickly solved my trouble easy. What is more I recommended it my friend.

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  4. Thanks Alex. Although it isn't related to my topic, I found it's very useful. Thanks again.

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  5. I have searched and searched for a solution to this!!! Thank you for this posting! I could just give you a big hug!!!

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  6. You're welcome. I'm glad when you are happy. Your comment makes me want that hug right now... thanks.

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  7. I am a community college teacher and needed this information. Thank-you

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  8. Thank you; this was excellent.

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  9. this is awesome! love it! thanks so much for sharing! :D

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