How to Create Superscript and Subscript in MS Word: 8 Steps

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2024 Author: Samantha Chapman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 09:13

This article shows you how to format the text of a Word document to appear as superscript or subscript, i.e. it appears at the top or bottom of the line where normally formatted text is shown. Characters formatted as superscript or subscript have a much smaller size than normal text, since in most cases they are used for scientific notation or to indicate footnotes or footnotes. Using Microsoft Word it is very easy to format text as superscript or subscript.

Steps

Part 1 of 2: Format Text as Superscript

Create Superscript and Subscript in MS Word Step 1

Step 1. Select the part of the text that should appear as superscript

Alternatively, you can place the text cursor at the point in the document where you need to insert the superscript text.

Create Superscript and Subscript in MS Word Step 2

Step 2. Apply superscript formatting to the text

After highlighting the portion of text you want to superscript or placing the cursor where you want to type the characters that will appear as superscript, use one of the following methods:

Press the x² button located in the "Font" group of the Home tab of the Word ribbon;
Access the "Format" menu, choose the "Font" option, then select the "Superscript" check button inside the dialog box that appears;
Press the hotkey combination "Ctrl + Shift + =".

Create Superscript and Subscript in MS Word Step 3

Step 3. Turn off superscript text formatting

Once you've successfully formatted the selected (or typed) text as superscript, use the same method used earlier to disable the "Superscript" feature. This way you can type text normally.

Create Superscript and Subscript in MS Word Step 4

Step 4. Format superscript or subscript as plain text

At any time you can convert the characters displayed as superscript or subscript into normal text: select the portion of text in question and press the key combination "Ctrl + Spacebar".

Part 2 of 2: Format Text As Subscript

Create Superscript and Subscript in MS Word Step 5

Step 1. Select the part of the text that should appear as a subscript

Alternatively, you can place the text cursor at the point in the document where you will need to insert the text as a subscript.

Create Superscript and Subscript in MS Word Step 6

Step 2. Apply subscript formatting to the text

After highlighting the portion of text you want to subscript or placing the cursor where you want to type the characters that will appear as subscript, use one of the following methods:

Press the x₂ button located in the "Font" group of the Home tab of the Word ribbon;
Access the "Format" menu, choose the "Font" option, then select the "Subscript" check button inside the dialog box that appears;
Press the hotkey combination "Ctrl + =".

Create Superscript and Subscript in MS Word Step 7

Step 3. Turn off subscript text formatting

Once you have correctly formatted the selected (or entered) text as a subscript, use the same method used previously to disable the "Subscript" function.

Create Superscript and Subscript in MS Word Step 8

Step 4. Format superscript or subscript as plain text

At any time you can convert the characters displayed as superscript or subscript into normal text: select the portion of text in question and press the key combination "Ctrl + Spacebar".

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