over score over a letter

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Looking at the order in which you posted your four messages in this
thread, it's clear that you didn't read the messages you replied to.
 
Why read messages when you can start an argument instead? :-)

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



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Looking at the order in which you posted your four messages in this
thread, it's clear that you didn't read the messages you replied to.
 
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Peter T. Daniels said:
Looking at the order in which you posted your four messages
in this thread, it's clear that you didn't read the
messages you replied to.
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Hmm, you appear to be right! Dunno how I screwed that up! Got the wrong
thread somehow!
Thanks! And apologies to all for the screwup.

HTH,

Twayne`
 
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Stefan Blom said:
If the OP had asked about that (the subject is misleading),
I would have referred her to
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm.
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I don't really care what you'd have done, but it's immaterial. At least I
see now how it got screwed up in my head. And Susan, if she's reading, would
be likely to respond anyway. She does have a lot of good info at hand; great
participant.

Twayne
 
Twayne said:
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I don't really care what you'd have done, but it's immaterial. At least I
see now how it got screwed up in my head. And Susan, if she's reading,
would be likely to respond anyway. She does have a lot of good info at
hand; great participant.
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Well, you did ask me what I would have done, and I answered.

Fellow MVP Suzanne S. Barnhill is a great participant in these newsgroups; I
have to agree on that one.
 
The original fault was OP's (who never came back anyway), who used the
wrong term for "accent."
 
Yes, this key is a mystery.

FWIW the ` key is used by Word in a programming context, for want of a
better expression - it's used by some database driver/provider versions
to quote stuff such as table names in SQL SELECT statements, e.g. if you
insert an Excel .xls worksheet using a DATABASE field, or record a
MailMerge OpenDataSource.

I don't know about the US keyboard, but the UK version typically has
three characters on it:
a. at the top is a ¬ (Unicode 0x00AC NOT SIGN) which you do get when
you shift.
b. at the bottom left is a ` (Unicode 0x0060 GRAVE ACCENT) which the
unshifted key gives you
c. at the bottom right is a character that looks like | (Unicode
0x007C VERTICAL LINE ). The only key combination that seems to get you
this is Alt-Gr+the key, but what is inserted is actually ¦ (Unicode
0x00A6 BROKEN BAR).

On the UK keyboard there is usually a key to the left of the Z key with
a backsash \ at the bottom and a ¦ (Unicode 0x00A6 BROKEN BAR) but
shift+this key actually gives you | (Unicode 0x007C VERTICAL LINE ).

Confusing when at least one of these is used for the Unix "Pipe"
character. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_bar)

Peter Jamieson

http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk
 
Now that you mention it, the character that I use for "pipe" (VERTICAL LINE)
is in fact represented on my (US) keyboard by the BROKEN BAR, though I
hadn't noticed this before. But US keyboards don't have the Alt-Gr key, so
we don't have the third alternative you mention. Our ` character is
unshifted; when shifted it produces ~.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 
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