Then s imply tick the subscript or superscript box, make any other changes you want to the font, and click OK. You may prefer to use keyboard shortcuts if you want to make the change on the fly while typing. Before typing the sub/superscript text, type the appropriate keyboard shortcut, type the text that you want changed, and then type the shortcut again when you want to return to normal text. The keyboard shortcut for subscript (e.g.
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The keyboard shortcut for superscript (e.g.Check out 4 Ways To Type Superscript and Subscript On a Mac at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. #SUBSCRIPT AND SUPERSCRIPT IN WORD EQUATIONS MAC# Video Transcript: So let's look at different ways that you could make text Superscript or Subscript. What are these? Well, if you don't know Superscript is when text is above the baseline. So you're going to say seven squared you'd have the 2 there raised up. It's often used for equations and for other reasons. So this is superscript and this is subscript. Here I am in TextEdit and I'm going to show you one of the most basic ways but it also takes a lot of steps and can be a little frustrating.
Say I want to say something like seven squared. The two is supposed to be the superscript. Now I am using Rich Text formatting here in TextEdit. If I go to Format, Font I can go to Baseline and there is the selection for Superscript and Subscript. But I'm not done yet because all it does is raise the 2 up over the baseline.īut it doesn't look really good because the two is still the same size as the seven. Usually Superscript and Subscript are smaller. So I'm going to want to select this and change the size. If I change it too much, like you'd think maybe going half would be just fine, then it doesn't look good. So maybe something about 75% looks pretty good there. If I wanted to make that subscript instead then instead of going to Font, Baseline, and Superscript I would do Subscript and put it down below. Now typically when you see in nicely typed set things superscript or subscript done this way it's also Bolded. So whether or not it's subscript or superscript bolding it kind of makes it look a little bit better. Then you may want to adjust and play with the font size a little bit. Sometimes you want to get it just so the number kind of lines up with the top there.
So you have lots of different options, lots of different steps. One way to do it is to use Special Characters. There are special characters for numbers that are superscript and subscript. So I'll type 7 but I'm going to get a special character the same way I would get any special character or emoji. I'm going do Control, Command, and Space to bring up the Character Selector.