You are familiar with the term subscripts and superscripts, but how do you type them in Word on Mac? Sometimes your Mac keyboard gives you a hard time when you try to add subscript or superscript. They may even disappear from your screen. In this article, we will talk about subscripts, superscripts, and how to make subscripts on Mac with Word 2011
When you find a word, number, or letter written slightly under the text baseline, it is a subscript.
For example:
In the image, the letter ‘b’ is subscripted. Subscripted text is used in many places. Students use it for assignments in different subjects like chemistry, physics, mathematics, etc. Writing different chemical equations also requires subscripted text.
The process of writing subscripted texts in Mac is a little complicated. But it’s nothing you can’t handle. There are a few methods you can use to write subscripted text on Mac. In this article you will find all those methods about how to do a subscript on Mac.
In this method, I will show you how you can use “TextEdit” to write subscripted text.
Another way is using special characters in Mac to make a text subscripted. Follow the steps below to do it.
Using the Pages App on Mac
There is another advanced way of doing a subscript on Mac. This way involves an app name “Pages”. You can get this app from the “Apple Store”. After installing the app follow the procedure below.
The subscript is frequently applied in writing the science and math notes, text, and books. It generally displays as a reduced and minimized text under the main text. For writing equations and formulas, the subscript is needed. So, for writing a science or math document, you have to know about applying it. Here, we will give you a complete idea about how to do subscript on Mac.
There are two approaches to apply subscript on your Mac operating system. Which are:
In this article, we will tell you about both ways of doing subscripts. So, follow us along.
So, following these instructions given above, you can do subscript on Mac.