x bar, y bar, etc.

[Guest]

How can characters like x bar (i.e., an "x" with a "-" over the top) be typed
in WORD? Such figures are commonly used to represent averages, etc., and I
frequently need them in my work. WORD, of course, handles underline,
strike-through, and italics, but not this.

 

[garfield-n-odie]

See http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/Overbar.htm .

 

[Jezebel]

Insert a field --

{ eq \o(x,¯) }

Use Ctrl-F9 to create the field, not the curly brackets on the keyboard.
Change the x to y (or whatever) as needed. The overscore character is
Alt-0175 or use Insert > Symbol > Normal text. Having created this field
once, you can make it an autotext entry if you use it a lot.