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I've been trying (on and off) for a couple of weeks to head an Excel column with xbar (an 'x' with an overline) instead of the text "Ave", simply because it is prettier. Can I do it? no. Can I find a way that works on t'interweb? No. Then this morning I looked again, and I found a solution in just 7 words: "Do it in Word and copy it" 
Gah! Why the heck didn't I think of that? Open Word, type "sdf" and space to stop it uppercasing for me, then "x" followed by ALT-0772. Highlight, copy, Excel, paste. Swear. It works...
Don't you loooove consistency between applications? 
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Consistency between applications? I don't think I've heard of that.
But wait, this is actually weird. I thought alt codes were a feature of windows, not of word. ALT-30 works, but typing "x" followed by ALT-0772 doesn't seem to do anything. What's going on?
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Depends on the app (it would seem) and the font. Try it in Word with a Unicode (phonetics aware) font (MS Arial Unicode MS, stock Arial or even just the default Calibri will work fine, but my preferred Verdana doesn't) and it will add the phonetic overbar to the "x" for xbar. Stupid thing doesn't work in Excel though...
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I can't try it, I don't have Word. Still, learned something new today.
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You like Verdana? I like Verdana too. Why? Because that's what CP used for so many years.
Now CP has switched to Segoe UI, but my mind takes time to adapt.
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I dunno why, but I just find Verdana easy on the eye, and slightly quicker to read than Segoe. I used to like Times New Roman, but that was noticeably slower to read at the same font size - I think it was the serifs that did it, they "clutter" the character. Strangely I don't like Arial at all!
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harold aptroot wrote: but typing "x" followed by ALT-0772 doesn't seem to do anything. What's going on?
Doesn't work for me either. But searched for it and found that it works only with the numeric keypad 
Here is the link[^]
don't worry and don't get frustrated. everything will eventually sort out and then we will regret being frustrated. the only thing that matters is conscious efforts to make things right. - Rahul Rajat Singh
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That's what I did. It doesn't work anyway.
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Sorry - but ALT codes only ever work with the numeric pad - I forgot people might not know that if they don't use them (I use it for accents when I type Welsh for example)
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We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Ribbon: Insert -> Symbol, then enter 0304 (COMBINING MACRON) in the character code box.
Essentially it is Excel's internal CharMap equivalent. For that matter, CharMap also works.
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I told you I was thick...
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Whatdya mean sometimes?
speramus in juniperus
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Hi OG,
I'd say your keen mind, at maximum "thick," measures under 100 nanometers (that would be 1000 Angstroms) 
The "append horizontal bar super-scripted over the preceding character ... maybe" action, triggered by entering Alt-0772 is really an "edge case."
Some fonts, like Verdana, just don't support the higher Unicode functions, like this one. Others, that are not, in Windows, labeled "Unicode," like Arial, Segoe, etc., do.
I've observed that depending on the application, and its current font setting, having the numeric keypad activated (Num-Lock "on") may, or may not, be required to enter the super-scripted bar. In WordPad, the Num-Lock setting doesn't matter: it just works.
My daily work-horse text-editor will not support this no matter what language code-page, and font, I have selected as the default for the current edit windows: yet, it does support Unicode.
You may have noticed that in your browser (I'm using Chrome), trying to enter Alt-0772 when Num-Lock is "off" will attempt a page navigation (in Chrome it will trigger going to the home-page), and, when Num-Lock is "on," it's a no-op.
If you don't feel like firing up MS Word, you can use WordPad to easily get x-bar super-scripted characters. I am very surprised to hear you can't enter them into Excel !
bill
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Like my Grandfather used to say: 'Thick as a brick.'
I have those days sometimes. I think everyone has at least one thick-headed day in their life.
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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Like mine used to say "Thick as sh*t".
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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It's not good news, thats for certain: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24182038[^]
"Blackberry has announced it is planning to cut 4,500 jobs, or 40% of its worldwide workforce, in an attempt to staunch huge losses.
The smartphone maker said it anticipated a loss of as much as $995m (£621m) when it reports its second-quarter earnings next week."
If it had reacted quicker when it's systems went down a couple of years ago...and then it releases a phone it looks like nobody wants.
This week, the company released a new version of its handset, the Z30, which was praised by observers but was nonetheless overshadowed by Apple's launch of its new smartphone products.
"It's not a bad phone," ... "I'm sure they'll sell at least one."
Ouch!
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OriginalGriff wrote: "It's not a bad phone," ... "I'm sure they'll sell at least one."
We got BB fanatics here... by my side
I expect the numbers to be much larger.
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
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I still think they were the best phones for business. I had two of them and I liked them.
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The problem is not the product.
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It's the competition.
I had to get a Blackberry at work. I forwarded the number to my Droid and turned it off.
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I think the use of past tense kinda says it all, really.
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I know, the last one I had didn't have Wi-Fi and it had a *push* screen - what were they thinking of ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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They did same as Microsoft, at-least Microsoft woke up from the deep sleep. Both the companies were dominating in the business phone space. And they did nothing and just watched Apple and Google grow from the ground up. And when they realized, they were almost out of the race.
Blackberry had decent hardware in the past, but the software was lacking in terms of UI/UX. And when they fixed the software part with Blackberry OS6, their hardware was lagging behind. And now when they are trying to play catch-up it's too late.
IMO, Blackberry Bold still looks way cooler than iPhone or Galaxy ### in the business meeting. 
I am still hoping for a miracle from them (just like Windows Phone), and I will still buy next-gen Blackberry Bold. (I need a phone with a damn keyboard! - I mean real keys)
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Rutvik Dave wrote: I will still buy next-gen Blackberry Bold
I hate to say this, but...I wouldn't. What's the chances that the company will still exist in 6 months time? A year? You could well be throwing your money away on an expensive paper-weight. (Mind you, just suggesting that you shouldn't buy it probably reduces the chances that they will be there in a years time, so...)
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