Overline/overstrike in Onenote

[undisclosed]

Hello everyone

I've been using Onenote to take notes at school last year, and I've
loved it so far. As anyone who uses onenote to take notes can probably
attest to, although onenote can replace/improve on pen and paper in most
ways, special characters are where it runs into trouble. I've found all
sorts of workarounds, since a lot of symbols can stand in for others,
its very easy to manipulate your text, and Onenote's unicode entry is
simple and efficient (for me at least). I've also taken to using
autohotkey and autocorrect for inserting symbols since I have trouble
remembering all the unicode codes.

The one thing I have not been able to figure out is how to overline
things (put a line over a letter). I've done a lot of searching, and
while there seem to be ways to do it in almost every microsoft office
program, Onenote is conspicuously absent from every solution I've found.
I know it can be done using the equation entry in Word, but I can't seem
to paste characters using this (they show up as boxes with ?'s in them),
and it's not really workable if you're trying to keep up with notes in
an econ lecture.

So are there any better ways to do this? A native, hotkey based,
overlining in Onenote would be lovely, but I strongly doubt anything
like this exists based on what I've seen so far.

Thanks in advance

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wstrinz

[David Olsen]

What about the Strikethrough feature?
Ctrl+D, apply text effects, enable Strikethrough.

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David Olsen
www.powerbits.com.au

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[undisclosed]

It's not exactly what I was looking for, but thanks for the suggestion.
I'll probably wind up doing that until/unless I find a way to do real
overlines.

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wstrinz

[Rainald Taesler]

> It's not exactly what I was looking for, but thanks for the
> suggestion. I'll probably wind up doing that until/unless I find a
> way to do real overlines.

You'll just have to wait a bit.
In the upcoming version ON2010 (which will be released as a part of
Office 2010 in the first half of next year) there will be a really fine
formula editor.

Rainald

[joelb...@gmail.com]

Insert the symbol with character code '0305'. It's a "Combining Overline" and should do what you want to the next letter you type. Repeat for each letter you want to have an overline.

[marinac...@gmail.com]

Rainald, still not quite what I want, i just need do right the notation for X average, so a i just need to right X and overline it.
There is a way?

[garb...@gmail.com]

The solution is to write "\overline X". Just type what you want to have ovelined after writing \overline.