How do you make an overline?

Answer 1

The major programs and languages do not provide a way to overline text as easily as they can underline text. An overline is a line appearing immediately above text, while an underline appears immediately below it.

In Microsoft Excel 2010, overline can be achieved by inserting a combining diacritical mark.

First type the text you want to overline.

Now position the letter cursor immediately to the right of the rightmost character and select the 'Insert' tab in Excel. Do not select the character itself.

Now click 'Symbol' on the ribbon to get the 'Symbol' menu.

Without changing your font, select 'Combining Diacritical Marks' in the 'subset' box.

Now double-click the symbol called "Combining Overline" and the overline will appear above your original character. You need to reposition the cursor immediately to the right of the next character to the left and do the same until all your text is overlined.

You may find that the overline is too close to the top of your text and it looks untidy. In this case, immediately before selecting the 'Insert' tab in Excel, select a bigger font size, keeping the same font style. For instance, if your original text is in Colibri 11, select Colibri 16. This method is very fiddly, and you need to reselect the font size each time you insert a single overline character. If even then the overline reverts to the lower-level type, delete the overlined text, retype it, reselect the larger font, and overline the next character to the left first.