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To draw a line over letters isn't as simple as it should be. It's easy to underline letters using styled text, but there's no simple shortcut for drawing lines over letters, unless you want it over a full line, in which case you use Rule Above. Here are two workarounds:
The first way: Type your letter, followed by an underscore. Place the cursor between the letter and the underscore, and reduce the tracking to perhaps -50 to -100 so that it's directly under the letter. Hold down shift and press the right arrow to select the underscore. Now increase the baseline shift until it's over the letter. A little awkward, but it works.
Second way: Physically draw a line over the letters. Easy enough, but if your text shifts in any way, you'll have to move all your lines.
The first way: Type your letter, followed by an underscore. Place the cursor between the letter and the underscore, and reduce the tracking to perhaps -50 to -100 so that it's directly under the letter. Hold down shift and press the right arrow to select the underscore. Now increase the baseline shift until it's over the letter. A little awkward, but it works.
Second way: Physically draw a line over the letters. Easy enough, but if your text shifts in any way, you'll have to move all your lines.
How about style-type style- strike thru
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That will put a line through a letter, but I want to put the line over (above) the letter. Sorry for not being more descriptive.
Blueark's method works but I notice that when I print it directly to my lazer printer, the lines show up slightly lower than they appear on the screen. But if I first use acrobat distiller to create an adobe acrobat file then print it from the acrobat file it prints out correctly.
Blueark's method works but I notice that when I print it directly to my lazer printer, the lines show up slightly lower than they appear on the screen. But if I first use acrobat distiller to create an adobe acrobat file then print it from the acrobat file it prints out correctly.
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