Underlined, superscripted text

[darinaray]

I am using PowerPoint 2004 for Mac and I have a title with
superscripted text that I would like to underline. When underlining
the text the underline is also superscripted rather than being aligned
with the rest of the regular text. This looks terrible. I have
searched for solutions, but haven't found any. I did find this
knowledge base article that applies to earlier versions of Word for
Mac. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/81418/en-us I have confirmed
that Word 2004 for Mac displays the underlined, superscripted text
correctly. For whatever reason the problem still remains in PowerPoint
2004. When opening the same file in PowerPoint 2000 for PC the text is
displayed properly. Any ideas besides the workarounds from the
article?

Thanks for your help.

-Dray

 

[CyberTaz]

I'm not at my Mac to check, but what happens if you apply the superscript
first, then apply the underline?

 

[darinaray]

The order in which the superscripting and underlining is done doesn't
make any difference for me.

-Dray

 

[CyberTaz]

Just a thought... I was on a PC at the time & it worked in PPt 2004, so I
hoped it would help. Have been messing with it a little since I got home
with no more success than you've had - even tried copying from Word & it
still went flippant when pasted into PPt. Sorry I don't have a better
suggestion :-{

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

In an experiment on a slide I typed:
Two squared2

I then selected the 2, from the Font menu chose Format, clicked the
superscript (30pts) checkbox, and clicked OK.

The 2 was then superscript.

If I positioned the type selection cursor immediately in front of the 2 and
selected the word "squared" without including the letter 2 I was able to
underline the word without underlining the superscripted 2.

If I attempted to select more than the the word "squared" the moment the
space in between the words was selected the 2 also became selected.

It seems that the solution is to select the letters of only one word at a
time and then underline those.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

I am using PowerPoint 2004 for Mac and I have a title with
superscripted text that I would like to underline. When underlining
the text the underline is also superscripted rather than being aligned
with the rest of the regular text. This looks terrible. I have
searched for solutions, but haven't found any. I did find this
knowledge base article that applies to earlier versions of Word for
Mac. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/81418/en-us I have confirmed
that Word 2004 for Mac displays the underlined, superscripted text
correctly. For whatever reason the problem still remains in PowerPoint
2004. When opening the same file in PowerPoint 2000 for PC the text is
displayed properly. Any ideas besides the workarounds from the
article?

Thanks for your help.

-Dray

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
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[CyberTaz]

Hi Jim -

As I understood the op, he wants to have the superscripted text underlined
but wants the underlining to be at the same baseline as the underlined
regular text. No matter how I go about it any attempt to underline the
superscripted content results in the underline being superscripted as well.

Any ideas?

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[darinaray]

Bob,

You are correct. I am preparing a technical presentation and would
like the following text to be on one of the slides - (mg/cm2) where
the 2 is superscripted and all of the text is underlined. The best
workaround that I have come up with is to insert a table and enter the
text (mg/cm2) with the 2 superscripted into one of the cells. Then
using the Border and Fill options I select only to display the border
at the bottom of the cell. By changing the vertical alignment of the
text, the internal cell margins and the cell width I can get it to look
like it is underlined text. It doesn't look great, but it looks better
than having the underline superscripted. It is too bad that PowerPoint
doesn't treat this type of text the same way as Word which behaves as
it should. I am still open to suggestions if someone can find a better
solution!


-Dray

 

[CyberTaz]

NEWS FLASH - but not *thoroughly* tested;

It appears, oddly enough, that if you do it in Word then copy/paste to PPt
the baseline underlining will hold.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Bob,

You are correct. I am preparing a technical presentation and would
like the following text to be on one of the slides - (mg/cm2) where
the 2 is superscripted and all of the text is underlined. The best
workaround that I have come up with is to insert a table and enter the
text (mg/cm2) with the 2 superscripted into one of the cells. Then
using the Border and Fill options I select only to display the border
at the bottom of the cell. By changing the vertical alignment of the
text, the internal cell margins and the cell width I can get it to look
like it is underlined text. It doesn't look great, but it looks better
than having the underline superscripted. It is too bad that PowerPoint
doesn't treat this type of text the same way as Word which behaves as
it should. I am still open to suggestions if someone can find a better
solution!

Have a look here:

Double-Underline text
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00775.htm

This double-underlines selected text but you can easily delete the bit that
duplicates the first underline and offsets it.



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