Word processor Microsoft Office Word is one of the most common applications for creating and editing text documents. Of course, it cannot fail to provide for the possibility of transforming letters and numbers into superscripts and subscripts ("superscripts and subscripts"). This operation can be done here in several ways.
Necessary
Word processor Microsoft Office Word 2007 or 2010
Instructions
Step 1
Start Microsoft Word and load a text document into it. Highlight a letter, number, or any other character that you want to print in superscript or subscript format. Press ctrl and the equal sign to subscript the selected character. To transform it into a superscript, use the keyboard shortcut ctrl + shift + equal sign. The same can be done using the corresponding buttons in the "Font" section of the "Home" tab of the word processor menu.
Step 2
The indexes obtained by the method described above will be guaranteed to be displayed in text documents of their own Word format. However, formatting can be lost when transferring texts to documents of other formats. If you plan to do this, it may be more appropriate to display superscripts and subscripts using the appropriate character in the code tables. Word provides such an opportunity. To use it, first place the insertion cursor at the position in the text where the superscript or subscript icon should be.
Step 3
Go to the "Insert" tab of the word processor menu and in the rightmost group of commands, click the button labeled "Symbol". If there is no index you need among the twenty characters in the drop-down list, then click on the lowest line - "Other characters".
Step 4
If you need superscripts with numbers 1, 2 or 3, then in the "Set" field, set the value "additional Latin-1". The rest of the superscript and subscript numbers are placed in the "superscript and subscript" section of the character table. The letters of the Latin and Greek alphabets in the superscript format are also in the sections "letters for changing spaces" and "additional phonetic characters". Select the cell of this table with the sign you need and click the "Insert" button. When you re-insert a recently used symbol into the text, you will not have to search for it again - it will be placed by the word processor in the twenty characters of the drop-down list from the "Symbol" button.
Step 5
There is an alternative way to insert superscript and subscript characters. It is less convenient, as it requires knowledge of the hexadecimal code of the required character in the unicode table when used. Type this code where you want to insert the index, and then press alt="Image" and x. For example, to add a subscript x to the text, enter the code 2093 and press alt="Image" + x. The entered code will disappear - the word processor will replace it with the appropriate icon. You can find out the hexadecimal code of the letter you are interested in in the "Character code" field of the symbol table described in the previous step.
