You can use those special characters as well. You can Format, Font, Baseline and choose Superscript. Now in Pages you can do the same kind of things.
HOW TO MAKE A SUPERSCRIPT ON MAC FULL
Let's go to a full fledged word processor, Pages. It's now to the power of 2.īut I also wanted to show you that because you can actually get superscript characters. You'll always be able to get it and most people that are looking at math will understand that the 2 is now superscript. It's also great because if you're working in a plain text environment, say typing a plain text document or on some sort of system where you just don't have all these special characters then doing it this way will always work. So once you start seeing it all the time, of course, it doesn't look quite as bad. Just do a search for math formulas online and you're going to come up with tons of websites that actually just put seven squared as that. So while this may look not as pretty you're going to see it a lot. This is used so often that it's seen online in documents all over the place. So when you're typing something in a program that's expecting a mathematical formula, it could be the graphing app or some other math app, using the caret symbol will get you that superscript when you're trying to do math. If I do 7^2 it assumes I mean to the power of two and I get the correct answer. So I'm going to do Command Space to bring up Spotlight. That could be something as simple as Spotlight. It's more functional because it's used in programs that do math. It doesn't look but it's far more functional. Here's what seven to the second power looks like 7^2. So there's another way to do it using the caret symbol. These are two different characters and they are different than the number 2 that you are normally typing. So I can use the subscript 2 and you can see that it puts the 2 there below. There's also subscript characters as well. Notice that, of course, once I use this I get it there in my Frequently Used list at the top so it's a little bit easier to type. But you can go and use these for say squaring a number. So if you're doing a formula and you need to spell out a word or something or put like C or W or some other variable as the superscript then it's not going to work as well. So this is a really great way to do it but you see you have a limited number of characters. That's not the normal 2 that you type with the keyboard.
So let's use the 2 here and you can see it puts a 2 there. You can see there's a bunch of numbers here and a few other things. I'm going to use the Search field to search for superscript. I'm going do Control, Command, and Space to bring up the Character Selector. 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. There are special characters for numbers that are superscript and subscript. One way to do it is to use Special Characters. So you have lots of different options, lots of different steps. Sometimes you want to get it just so the number kind of lines up with the top there. Then you may want to adjust and play with the font size a little bit. So whether or not it's subscript or superscript bolding it kind of makes it look a little bit better. Now typically when you see in nicely typed set things superscript or subscript done this way it's also Bolded. 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. So maybe something about 75% looks pretty good there. If I change it too much, like you'd think maybe going half would be just fine, then it doesn't look good. So I'm going to want to select this and change the size. Usually Superscript and Subscript are smaller. 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. If I go to Format, Font I can go to Baseline and there is the selection for Superscript and Subscript. Now I am using Rich Text formatting here in TextEdit. The two is supposed to be the superscript. Say I want to say something like seven squared. 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. So this is superscript and this is subscript. It's often used for equations and for other reasons. So you're going to say seven squared you'd have the 2 there raised up. What are these? Well, if you don't know Superscript is when text is above the baseline. Video Transcript: So let's look at different ways that you could make text Superscript or Subscript.
HOW TO MAKE A SUPERSCRIPT ON MAC MAC
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