Word 2007 Equations: How to stack symbols

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Does Word 2007's equation editor have any equivalent to the \stackrel or \overset commands in LaTeX?

I'd like to be able to stack custom text on top of = signs, etc.

Best Answer

You can use \above and \below:

a=\above("foo") b

becomes

a=┴"foo"  b

which becomes

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A more or less complete description of the formula language in Word is given in Unicode Technical Note #28, although the final implementation differs somewhat in some areas. Unfortunately this is the only real documentation that's there (I asked the author of the math typesetting stuff at MS :-)).