Easy Ways to Overline Text in Word

You shall already know the method to underline text in Microsoft Office Word. But addition to this, you may also have the demand to overline or overbar specified characters sometimes. For example, if you want to enter an average number in a mathematical document, a short line above a given variable is necessary.

In this post, you will get several simple methods based on Microsoft Word.

1. Insert Shapes

The most direct way is to draw a line over the specified text.

1. Click Insert – Shapes. Find the icon of straight line in Lines.
2. Select it. Drag your cursor to draw a straight line over the text.
3. Then you can choose the color and effect of the line you drew.
4. The bright spot of this method is the high degree of freedom. You can draw any kind of line in anywhere you want.
5. Finish.

2. Borders

You can also regard the overline as a part of a border.

1. First, select the text and find the icon of Borders in Home tab.
2. Click the small triangle beside it to see the drop-down list, choose Top Border.
3. Then a overline is added to the whole row.
4. Adjusting the width of it requires you to use the horizontal Ruler. You can enable it by checking Ruler in View tab.
5. Put your cursor at the row of the text you want to overline. Then drag the small triangle on the ruler to adjust the length of the line.
6. Finish.

3. Equation Editor

You can also use Equation Editor to insert overline to your text.

1. Click Insert – Equations to enable the Equation Tools in Design, and a textbox will be added to your document.
2. Click Accent in Design (Equation Tools) tab, select Bar in Accent or Overbar in Overbars and Underbars.
3. Then the underline will be inserted in the equation textbox. You can click the dotted pane to input any text you want.

3. Using a Field Code

1. First, we’ll show you how to use a field code to apply overlining to text. Open an existing or new document in Word and place the cursor where you want to put the text with overlining. Press “Ctrl + F9” to insert field code brackets, which are highlighted in gray. The cursor is automatically placed in between the brackets.
2. Enter the following text between the brackets.    EQ \x \to()
• NOTE: There is a space between “EQ” and “\x” and between “\x” and “\to()”. “EQ” is the field code used to create an equation and the “\x” and “\to” are switches used to format the equation or text. There are other switches you can use in the EQ field code, including ones that apply bottom \bo, right \ri, left \le, and box borders to the equation or text.
3. Put the cursor between the parentheses and enter the text you want to overline.
4. To display this as text rather than a field code, right-click anywhere in the field code and select “Toggle Field Codes” from the popup menu.
5. The text you entered into the field code displays with a line above it. When the field code displays as normal text, you can highlight it and apply various formatting to it, such as font, size, bold, color, etc.
• NOTE: To display the field code again, simply right-click in the text and select “Toggle Field Codes” again. When you put the cursor in text generated from using a field code, the text is highlighted in gray, just like the field code.
6. If you want the line to extend beyond either end of the text, add spaces when entering the text into the field code inside the parentheses. This is useful for creating lines with names under them for signing official documents.
• NOTE: Field codes work in all versions of Word, for both Windows and Mac.
7. Finish.

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