You can change your font style to add these as text effects or use certain keyboard shortcuts to do it for you. Both these keyboard shortcuts are toggle options, so pressing the same keyboard shortcut again changes superscripted or subscripted text to normal.If you’re looking to add these formatting options to text you’re using in PowerPoint, there are a couple of ways you can do it. For subscripting, you can use the Ctrl + = keyboard shortcut. The result can be seen in Figure 11, below. Press the Ctrl + Shift + = keyboard shortcut to superscript your text.Select the text on your slide that you want to subscript or superscript, as shown in Figure 10, below.įigure 10: Select character to be superscripted.Do note that the Offset option is only available in PowerPoint, and not within Word, Excel, and Outlook.įollow these steps to add subscripts and superscripts to text using keyboard shortcuts:.Figure 9, below shows some samples of how different offset values work for both Subscript and Superscript.įigure 9: Offset values for Subscript and Superscript text A value of zero for Subscript indicates that the subscripted text is on the baseline.The default for Subscript is -25%, and the default for Superscript is +30%. Depending on whether you choose Subscript or Superscript, the Offset box, shown highlighted in purple within Figure 8 will sport different values.Offset Values for Subscript and Superscript Alternatively, press the Cmd + T keyboard shortcut. Now, access the Format menu, and click the Font option, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 7, below.Follow steps 1 and 2 from the preceding section.To get started with the Font dialog box, follow these steps: You apply Superscript formatting in a similar way. Compare with Figure 3, shown previously on this page. Figure 6, below, shows the result of applying Subscript formatting to some characters.Do note that you cannot click both buttons.įigure 5: Click the Subscript or Superscript button To format as superscript, you can similarly select the Superscript button, highlighted in blue within Figure 5. To format as subscript, click the Subscript button, highlighted in red within Figure 5. Now, access the Home tab of the Ribbon, and locate the Font group, shown in Figure 5, below.We selected the character, 2, as shown in Figure 4, below.įigure 4: Select character to be subscripted This is the chemical formula for Sodium Carbonate, but as you can see, it really does not look like a formula because the subscripts are missing. Type in the text to add subscripts, as shown in Figure 3, below.To get started with using the Home tab of the Ribbon to add subscripts and superscripts to text, follow these steps: Follow these steps to add subscripted and superscripted text in PowerPoint 365 for Mac: 1. There are three ways to add subscripted and superscripted text in PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office programs. Similar to subscripted text, superscripted text is also smaller than the preceding text, but it's placed higher, above the X-height of normal text, as shown in Figure 2.įigure 2: Position compared to baseline and X-Height However, it is also placed lower, below the baseline, as you can see in Figure 2, below. We will also look at keyboard shortcuts that make these tasks even easier.įirst, let us look at some samples of subscripted and superscripted text, as shown highlighted in green within Figure 1, below.Īs you can see in Figure 1, above, subscripted text is the text that's smaller in size than the preceding text. Do you need to frequently add subscript and superscript formatting to text in PowerPoint, or even in other Microsoft Office programs such as Word, Excel, and Outlook? Quite often, this formatting may take a while, and we will explore easier and faster ways to add subscripted and superscripted text.
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