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.

Solution

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 :-)).

Comments

[Joey]

Nice, and it even works inside equations. But see here: ics.uci.edu/~pan/documents/latex/stackrel.html ... \stackrel does an entirely different thing than superimposing characters on top of each other. It merely stacks them.

[Andreas Rejbrand]

+1. (I would give you +10 if I could!) Thank you very much! I have been under the impression that this cannot be done in Word at all!