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How do you type a line over the letter "o"? What Alt numbers do you type?

Anonymous
2011-03-14T16:50:44+00:00

I want to put a line over a letter so a person knows how to pronoun the word

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  1. HansV 462.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2011-03-14T17:26:53+00:00

    Try typing 014d then press Alt+X

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  1. Suzanne S Barnhill 277.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2011-03-14T22:33:37+00:00

    It's possible that the font you are using doesn't contain this character (Latin small letter o with macron); in this case I would expect Word to substitute a character in another font.

    To confirm this, however, use Insert | Symbol to browse for U014D in the Latin Extended-A character subset. As Hans says, you can then select it and click to insert it.

    If you will be using the character frequently, you may want to assign a keyboard shortcut. You can do this by clicking the Shortcut Key... button and then typing the desired shortcut in the box. I would suggest Ctrl+-, o (that is, Ctrl and Hyphen at the same time, followed by lowercase o).

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-03-14T20:21:12+00:00

    This didn't work.  It just typed 014d.

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-03-15T23:34:50+00:00

    I would try finding the character on the Web and copying and pasting it into Word. That has worked for me plenty of times.

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  3. HansV 462.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2011-03-14T21:18:47+00:00

    Select Insert | Symbol...

    Select "Unicode (hex)" from the "From" dropdown.

    Scroll down until you see the character that you want.

    Select it and click Insert.

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