Lydia,
this may seem cumbersome but it works! :)
In any document, go to the Insert/Field dialog. In the Categories list
choose
"Equations and Formulas" and in the Field Names list choose "Eq". Press the
Options button.
In the Switches list of the options dialog, select "\O()" and click the Add
to
Field button. In the Field Codes box, put the cursor between the parentheses
and type an x, a comma, and an underscore. Then click the OK button. In the
Insert/Field dialog, click OK again.
Your document now contains an x with an underline. The symbol you want is an
italic x with the bar above it, so you need to do a little adjusting. First
press Alt+F9 to expand the field code. The field will look like this:
{ EQ \O(x,_) }
Highlight the x and make it italic. Now highlight the underscore and go to
the
Format/Font dialog. Select the Character Spacing tab and make the Position
setting say "Raised by 9 pt". Click OK. Back in the document, press Alt+F9
again to collapse the field code. You should see the symbol you want. (If
the
bar is too high or too low, press Alt+F9, select the bar and change the
Position setting in Format/Font.)
Now make Word work for you instead of the other way around. Highlight the
symbol in the document. Open the Tools/AutoCorrect dialog. You should see
the
symbol in the With box in the middle of the dialog; if it doesn't show, make
sure the Formatted Text radio button is clicked. In the Replace box, type
some
one-word name that you can easily remember, but that won't otherwise appear
in
your documents -- for example, name it "xmean". Click the Add button and
then
the OK button. You're ready now!
Any time you want the symbol in a document, just type its name. As soon as
you
press the spacebar or a punctuation character, Word will replace the name
with
the symbol. Neat, huh? You can have as many of these as you want (as long as
you can remember their names -- or look for them in the AutoCorrect dialog's
list!).
E. Lee Ingalls III
Commercial Tool & Die Inc.
(p)616.785.8100 (f)616.785.8120
eli3@... <mailto:
eli3@...>
Fortitudine Vincimus: "by Endurance we conquer."
-----Original Message-----
From: Lydia Coffman [mailto:
lcoffman@...]
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 2:57 PM
To:
vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] [Way Off Topic] Scientific Fonts for Word/Excel
Thanks, Dina, but the symbol doesn't exist there-or in Excel. (at least in
excel you can do the calculation). But in writing about the process of mean
averages, you can't produce the symbol. My eyes are crossed from looking at
those little symbol boxes-if somebody knows where this one is hiding, please
let me know.
Thanks for the suggestions-maybe a meteor will hit me over the weekend. You
can't even produce your own "overstrike" in Word anymore (way back when you
could overstrike one character with another).
Progress.
Lydia
-----Original Message-----
From: Dina Hieber [mailto:
dhieber@...]
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:46 AM
To:
vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] [Way Off Topic] Scientific Fonts for
Word/Excel
Lyda,
In Word, Insert - Symbol. This should work.
Thanks,
Dina
Lydia Coffman wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I know this is way off from Vantage, but our QC guys are looking to write
up
> some statistical "stuff" and need some symbols that are nowhere to be
found.
> One is "mean average" -- it looks like an X with an = sign above it. I
> have had a most frustrating experience on the internet where you can find
> ancient Celtic runes fonts, but no modern statistical ones. Anyone have
any
> ideas? At this point, the secretary is drawing the lines over the x, but
it
> makes for an ISO nightmare when the final version of the document has to
be
> filed...
>
> Any help is appreciated, off list is fine.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lydia
> lcoffman@...
> Canyon Engineering Products, Inc.
> 661-294-0084
>
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