title: Create Overstrike Effect In A Cell
body: <p>I have been asked if there is any way to get Excel to produce an overstrike effect in a cell.  My first attempt was the use the BACKSPACE character:</p>
  
  <pre><code> ="A" &amp; CHAR(8) &amp; "B"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But the display does not seem to honor the BACKSPACE:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/PqsTb.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/PqsTb.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>Is this a font problem?  Is there a unicode approach ?</p>
  
  <p>I hate to tell the client to search for a custom font.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT#1:</strong></p>
  
  <p>For example.  This code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Sub XBar()
     ActiveCell.Font.Name = "Arial MS Unicode"
     ActiveCell.Value = "X" &amp; ChrW(773)
  End Sub
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Visually produces:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y4aLa.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y4aLa.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>but this is not a general solution.</p>