Word 2007 Equations: How to stack symbols

Question

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.

Answer 1

You can use \above and \below:

a=\above("foo") b

becomes

a=┴"foo"  b

which becomes

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 :-)).

Answer 2

See this article : Superimposing Characters.

The basic idea is to insert a field of type equation containing EQ \o (x,y) where x and y are the characters you want to superimpose.