Superscript appears in the wrong place

[mark]

Hi, I have just noticed that during my last couple of hours work on a
thesis the superscripted characters are now appearing much lower than
they should be. Does any one have any solutions or do i have to redo
the last X hours work?

Cheers
Mark

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

What superscripted characters are these? How were they created? How were
they made superscript? What do you mean by much lower? What version of Word
and OS?

 

[mark]

Generated with just the stand superscript on the format:font menu and
also ones generated by endnote. To clarify much lower they appear as
if vertically centred on the line.

hope this helps
Mark

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Hmmm...not familiar with this problem....

What versions of Word and OS?

Do you mean Word's endnote feature or the program EndNote?

Try a few different fonts, including the standard Times New Roman and
Arial--does it happen in all of them?

Is this just a display problem or do they print out low as well? What about
in Print Preview?

Does this happen in all documents, or only certain documents?

If it were only endnotes generated by Word, I would think that the
EndnoteReference style had lost its superscript formatting. You could go
into Format | Style and check the style definition for it.

 

[mark]

What versions of Word and OS?

Word 2004, 10.3

Do you mean Word's endnote feature or the program EndNote?

Program EndNote, but its all superscript items i.e. including items I
have manually selected and changed there font style.

Try a few different fonts, including the standard Times New Roman and
Arial--does it happen in all of them?
Yep.

Is this just a display problem or do they print out low as well? What about
in Print Preview?

Afraid its all of them

Does this happen in all documents, or only certain documents?

One document, but I am only working on one document at the moment and
its 208 pages and growing... I solved it temperarily by going to an
older version of the document and re-adding in the changes, however
I've just noticed that the problem has reoccured at some point in the
last 6 hours.

 

[mark]

Actually just tried again and it does seem to be worse with Helvetica,
its as if the definiation in the font has been changed Haven't checked
it on a second computer since the problem reoccured.

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Mark-

I don't know what is causing the problem, as sub/superscript sizing &
position are a part of the font algorithms, but if the hard copy confirms
incorrect positioning there is an adjustment you can make if you aren't
already aware of it.

If you select superscripted content & go into the font formatting dialog box
there is a setting on the Character Spacing page for Position. It can be
used to Raise or Lower selected text in .5 pt increments.

A bit of a hassle depending on how much is involved, but if the problem is
consistent once you determine how much to adjust you can use Find & Replace
to make the fix.

HTH |:>)

 

[Beth Rosengard]

And on the chance that the document has become corrupted: Turn on Show/Hide
Formatting, copy all but the very last paragraph mark, and paste into a
fresh new Word doc.

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[mark]

Thanks for those, and thanks cybertaz at least I now have a brut force
method if I can't fix it. (which when dealing with word and a massive
document is worth having.)

I've check in a brand new document typed some stuff in and formated it
it does seem that the problem is specific to Helvetica and in all
documents. Is it a possiblity that the font has become damaged? or
that there has been something done to the normal templete?

I did take some text out of another docuemnt that my supervisor sent me
the other day is it possible that this will have had some font settings
attached? (I've now deleted all of the user defined styles except my
own which I use).

I do at least have a method now (I think) to make sure it looks good
before handing it in, and i'm not pushing the deadline particularly.
(My present solution is... keep working on this docuement, then take it
on to a computer which I haven't used before, without EndNote, change
the font (Helvetica to Helvetic neue) and then do the final polishing.
Therefore hopefully eliminating as many potential source of the problem
as possible!)

 

[CyberTaz]

Hello Mark-

Is it a possiblity that the font has become damaged?

There is no question that fonts can get corrupted, but based on one of your
earlier posts I'm not sure that is the issue. If you can come up with a
'clean' copy of Helvetica it might be worth a shot.

Another thought on that issue... You don't happen to have _more_ than one
Helvetica installed, do you? This is something else that can cause problems.
If you haven't checked this out yet, you can use Font Book to do so.

Regards |:>)