Microsoft word is a software program that provides various
useful ways to type and manipulate text and to prepare various sorts of documents with remarkable ease.
As it is impossible to cover all the topics related to this highly
useful software program in a single post, so I have decided to explain only one
topic today and at the same time, I intend to save rest of the topics for my oncoming
posts.
As most of us are fully aware of the fact that each subject
has its own specific language that is supposed to be written or typed in a specific way. For instance, the formulas of Chemistry and Algebra are always written
or typed in a specific way. Microsoft Word helps us to type these formulas
in a proper way by offering two very useful commands named Subscript
and Superscript.
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| Subscript and Superscript are two very useful commands introduced by Microsoft Word |
Inside the Home
tab of Microsoft Word there can be seen a few pans e.g. Clipboard, Font, Paragraph, Style and Editing. Each
pan contains a few options to manipulate the text typed on the document of Microsoft Word. If you look inside the pan named Font, there will be seen two small tabs
side by side displaying the symbols X2 and X2.
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| Options referred as Subscript and Superscript in Home tab of Microsoft Word |
Symbol X2 represents the option
referred as Subscript while the
symbol X2 represents the
option referred as Superscript.
Subscript
This option is used to make the text typed on the document
of Microsoft Word, smaller below the text baseline. By using this option, you
can type different Chemistry formulas in a proper way without any mistake and
confusion. For instance, if you type the formula of water (H2O)
without applying the feature called Subscript
upon the digit 2 , the formula (H2O) will not be considered as much accurate as
the first one. There are a few more examples given below in the table:
Proper
Way
|
Not
so Proper Way
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H2O
|
H2O
|
NH4CL
|
NH4Cl
|
CO2
|
CO2
|
O2
|
O2
|
SO2
|
SO2
|
C2H4O
|
C2H4O
|
In order to apply the option Subscript upon the typed text all you need
to do is to select the text and then to click upon the tab displaying the symbol X2 prominently upon it (representing the feature Subscript) in the pan named Font. Further, in order to apply
the feature Subscript upon the typed text you can use the short cut keys CTRL + = too.
Superscript
Superscript and Subscript are considered to be the opposites
of each other. Unlike Subscript, Superscript is used to make the
selected text smaller above the line of text. By using this option you can type
different formulas of Algebra in a perfectly correct way. As a matter of fact,
if you ignore the use of Superscript while
typing the different Algebraic formulas, those formulas will never ever be
accepted as correct formulas. For instance a2b can never ever be considered an equivalent of a2b simply because:
a2b = a * b + b While
a2b = a * a * b
In order to apply the feature named Superscript upon the
typed text, all you need to do is to
click the tab named Superscript inside
the pan named Font just once after selecting the required text, or you can
hit CTRL + Shift + + too to apply
this feature on the selected text.
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