Hello everyone

I've been using Onenote to take notes at school last year, and I've loved it so far. As anyone who uses onenote to take notes can probably attest to, although onenote can replace/improve on pen and paper in most ways, special characters are where it runs into trouble. I've found all sorts of workarounds, since a lot of symbols can stand in for others, its very easy to manipulate your text, and Onenote's unicode entry is simple and efficient (for me at least). I've also taken to using autohotkey and autocorrect for inserting symbols since I have trouble remembering all the unicode codes.

The one thing I have not been able to figure out is how to overline things (put a line over a letter). I've done a lot of searching, and while there seem to be ways to do it in almost every microsoft office program, Onenote is conspicuously absent from every solution I've found. I know it can be done using the equation entry in Word, but I can't seem to paste characters using this (they show up as boxes with ?'s in them), and it's not really workable if you're trying to keep up with notes in an econ lecture.

So are there any better ways to do this? A native, hotkey based, overlining in Onenote would be lovely, but I strongly doubt anything like this exists based on what I've seen so far.

Thanks in advance

Edit: sorry, forgot to mention I'm using Onenote 2007 on Vista

What about the Strikethrough feature?
Ctrl+D, apply text effects, enable Strikethrough.

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David Olsen
www.powerbits.com.au


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>
> Hello everyone
>
> I've been using Onenote to take notes at school last year, and I've
> loved it so far. As anyone who uses onenote to take notes can probably
> attest to, although onenote can replace/improve on pen and paper in most
> ways, special characters are where it runs into trouble. I've found all
> sorts of workarounds, since a lot of symbols can stand in for others,
> its very easy to manipulate your text, and Onenote's unicode entry is
> simple and efficient (for me at least). I've also taken to using
> autohotkey and autocorrect for inserting symbols since I have trouble
> remembering all the unicode codes.
>
> The one thing I have not been able to figure out is how to overline
> things (put a line over a letter). I've done a lot of searching, and
> while there seem to be ways to do it in almost every microsoft office
> program, Onenote is conspicuously absent from every solution I've found.
> I know it can be done using the equation entry in Word, but I can't seem
> to paste characters using this (they show up as boxes with ?'s in them),
> and it's not really workable if you're trying to keep up with notes in
> an econ lecture.
>
> So are there any better ways to do this? A native, hotkey based,
> overlining in Onenote would be lovely, but I strongly doubt anything
> like this exists based on what I've seen so far.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
> --
> wstrinz

It's not exactly what I was looking for, but thanks for the suggestion. I'll probably wind up doing that until/unless I find a way to do real overlines.

> It's not exactly what I was looking for, but thanks for the
> suggestion. I'll probably wind up doing that until/unless I find a
> way to do real overlines.

You'll just have to wait a bit.
In the upcoming version ON2010 (which will be released as a part of
Office 2010 in the first half of next year) there will be a really fine
formula editor.

Rainald