Overbrace/underbrace without extending brackets/parentheses in Microsoft Word

Question

Avoid extending parentheses in equation in Microsoft Word

I'm using \overbrace to explain a part of an equation, like this:

 cos⁡(⏞(log⁡(3) )^(θ=log⁡(3) ) )+2

But the overbrace increases the height of the brackets unnecessarily:

How do I avoid growing the parentheses, to get something like this instead:

Inspired by this question on tex.stackexchange: https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/213720/36898

Answer 1

Answer: Use the \smash function to ignore the extra height:

cos⁡(\smash(⏞(log⁡(3) )^(θ=log⁡(3) ) ))+2

Initially it looks like this:

But if you right-click on the equation, and click "Paragraph" you can adjust the "before"-spacing. Here it is set to 24 points: