how to create an underlined carat symbol

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Need to know the command to type a symbol for an underlined carat
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Type the ^ character, select it, and click the U button on the toolbar
(ore press Ctrl+U, or go to Format > Font and select the type of
underline you want).

If the caret character is too high, you can use the "logical AND"
character in the Arial Unicode or Lucida Sans Unicode font (character
number hexadecimal 2227) and underline it or follow it with a
"combining low line" character (hexadecimal 0332). See
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm.

Finally, if the ordinary underline doesn't suit you, you could use any
other horizontal line (hyphen, en dash, em dash, etc.) with a caret in
an overstrike EQ field, as shown in
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm.

PS: The character's name is "caret". The "carat" is a unit of weight
for gemstones.

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Jay Freedman
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I'm sorry, I have no idea how to insert an underlined caret as a single
symbol, or even whether it's available but the character you copied from
that web site is an ordinary caret; the only reason it is underlined is
because it is a hyperlink.
 
The caret is Shift+6 on U.S. keyboards. The character code is 005E
(mistakenly identified as "circumflex accent"). As Jay pointed out, glyph
2227 (logical AND) may be closer to what you want. I assume by an underlined
caret you don't mean a capital delta. There is an overlined caret (NAND) at
22BC and 22BB is an underlined V (XOR); these are in the Mathematical
Operators character subset of large Unicode fonts such as Arial Unicode MS.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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