However, if there’s no text selected, the insertion pointer will switch to the subscript mode which allows you to type characters slightly below the normal line of type with smaller text than the rest of the text. After pressing these hotkeys, if any text was selected, it’ll now be formatted as a subscript.
#MICROSOFT WORD EQUATION EDITOR SUBSCRIPT PLUS#
If you are using the older version of Word on Mac, press Command ⌘ plus the minus sign (-) instead. Whilst pressing down the Ctrl or Command key, press the Equal sign.If you are on Mac, press the Command ⌘ key instead. It is virtually impossible to do this with such a field, however. This may not seem like a big deal, unless you want to make the field results stay with the following word.
There is one "gotcha" with creating these types of field: If the field appears near the end of a line, Word will wrap the text right after the field and before the next word. When you collapse the field, you may get just want you want in your display.
Just replace the \a with \o (step 2) and then superscript the 1 and subscript the 2. You can, if desired, also use the \o switch with the equation field.