Vertically aligned superscripts and subscripts

[Paul Brown]

:: MS-Word 97 SR-2

Can anyone help with a technique to insert superscripts and subscripts
such that they are vertically aligned, for example x_0 squared below
(view in courier font)

2
y = a x + a x
0 1 0 2 0


I don't want to use MS Equation Editor, I want a technique that can be
used within a paragraph, which would appear to rule out tables or
frames. Also I don't want to embed a graphics object either.

TIA,
Paul.

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

Can anyone help with a technique to insert superscripts and subscripts
such that they are vertically aligned, for example x_0 squared below
(view in courier font)

2
y = a x + a x
0 1 0 2 0


I don't want to use MS Equation Editor, I want a technique that can be
used within a paragraph, which would appear to rule out tables or
frames. Also I don't want to embed a graphics object either.

Is there an issue with simply using inline sub/superscripting ?



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[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Hi Paul,

Use an { ADVANCE } field, such as x2{ ADVANCE \l 4 }0 where the 2 and the 0
are superscripted and subscripted respectively. You may also want to adjust
the vertical postion as well as with the above construction, the 2 is
sitting right on top of the 0.

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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Equation Editor objects can be (and in Word 2000 and above are by default)
inline, and EE is much the easiest way to do this.

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[Martha]

(e-mail address removed) (Paul Brown) wrote

Can anyone help with a technique to insert superscripts and subscripts
such that they are vertically aligned [example snipped]
I don't want to use MS Equation Editor, I want a technique that can be
used within a paragraph, which would appear to rule out tables or
frames. Also I don't want to embed a graphics object either.

You can try using an { EQ } field (look it up in help). It's painful,
but it has all the basics. Make sure never to double-click such a
field, though, because that will (try to) invoke Equation Editor.

Just fyi, in proper mathematical notation, the subscript and the power
would *not* be aligned. When writing "x1 squared", the 1 would be
closer to the x than the 2. You're squaring the variable called x1,
not squaring x and then doing something else to it, with the something
else denoted by a 1 subscript. It's nice to get the power and the
subscript to overlap slightly, because it looks better that way, but
they shouldn't really be aligned. (It's also nice to get the subscript
closer to the variable than it would be if you just lowered it by a
few points; it makes it apparent that they belong together.)