Sub/Superscripts in Autocorrect

[ajfis2]

I type a lot of chemical formulae, so I tried to set up som
Autocorrects for things like H2O and H2SO4 to be changed to H2O an
H2SO4. To do that, I clicked the "formatted text" radio button. I
converts to subscripts perfectly, but it changes the font from whateve
it was that I was typing in to Arial (just for the Autocorrected text).

Looks like a catch-22, can't use Autocorrect to put in sub/superscript
without using "formatted text" but can't match the font if "formatte
text" is used.

Any ideas??

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

What if, instead of using "Subscript" format, you use the characters
"subscript 2" (etc.) that you'll find at Unicode 2080 through 2089?
Among the fonts supplied with Office that include them are Calibri,
Cambria, Cambria Math, Lucida Sans, and Arial Unicode (but not Arial,
and not TNR).

The reason Word changes your font may be that it's too smart for its
own good: instead of simply lowering the number and making it smaller
("Subscript" style), it tries to substitute the actual subscript
character (which has thicker strokes than a reduced regular character
so it won't look washed out), and the default font for substitutions
is Arial. If your whole text is in Cambria rather than TNR, you
shouldn't have that problem.

 

[ajfis2]

Thanks that worked brilliantly, it leaves the letters in the origina
font and converts the digits to subscripts (in Math Cambria font). I'
writing a paper that requires Arial font, so I'll see if it sneak
through