x bar (symbol for mean)

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x bar (symbol for mean)

I'm a somewhat new mac user, but I've been around word processing programs for years. I cannot find where the symbol for mean, x bar (the x with the line over it) is in Pages, (or Word for that matter).

Any help would be great.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Oct 21, 2009 6:21 PM

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Answer 1

Badunit

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Oct 21, 2009 6:54 PM in response to tablangis

I have not found a single character for x̅ but you can combine unicode character 305 with an x to create it. Find character 305 in Edit/Special Characters/view:code tables and save it as a favorite. Whenever you want x̅, type an x then click on the code in the favorites tab of the Special Characters window. Or copy/paste it from one place to another (like I did here twice).

There may be a single symbol but I didn't find it.

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Answer 2

tablangis Author

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Oct 21, 2009 7:11 PM in response to tablangis

I followed the instructions given, and it produced the desired result. thank you so much!

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