MS Word Q??

Question

Not sure how to phrase this so,.. when typing a date like 2nd or 1st, i forget how you get the nd part to go small, also forget what it's called, please help it's driving me nuts!!

Answer 1

All the previously given answers are VERY GOOD and accurate.



The feature that is doing this to you is called AUTO CORRECT. It's a nice feature to have and will do the same thing to you with st, nd, rd, th when used in conjunction with numbers and will do similar when using fractions such as 11/2 (as in one and a half) will show up as 1 then the 1/2 part will be smaller to show one-half as a fraction all its own.



Your best bet is to just do what the other people suggested and highlight it, and format the font for that one instance to not be super/subscripted.



Good luck!

Answer 2

There are two general ways: By direct formatting and by Auto Correct. Auto Correct is faster (in fact, automatic), but direct formatting is more general.



To do it via direct formatting:



1. Select the text you want to make a superscript.

2. Press CTRL/SHIFT/=



To make it normal text again, repeat the process.



To make a subscript, press CTRL/= instead.



To do it via AutoCorrect (with Word versions prior to Word Vista (2007)):



1. Click the Tools->AutoCorrect Options menu item.

2. Click the AutoFormat as you Type tab.

3. Check the Ordinals (1st) With Superscript checkbox.

4. Click OK.



Hope that helps.

Answer 3

In older versions of the program you had to make it superscript so it went small above the line, like in metres cubed or squared, but these days you just type the date, i.e. 2nd and as soon as you space to finish what the program considers a word it automatically superscripts it.

Answer 4

The both shortcuts you have asked for are for alignments. ctrl+q results in an text-alignment known an 'blockquote'. This quote in a document is usually inserted as a separate segment of text, rather than given inline with quotation marks around it. A blockquote is left-indented with respect to the enclosing text and has white-space before and after it. The blockquote may also be in a different typeface from the enclosing text. ctrl+l results in left-alignment of the text. You may not notice the changes of these shortcuts because they both align the text to left side, which is default one. But once you are using right-alignment (ctrl+R) or center-alignment (ctrl+E) and then use those shortcuts, you can see the change. I hope this was what you were queried about........ ;-D

Answer 5

that part is called a superscript, and you can highlight that portion (the nd or st) go to format, font, and then click superscript. You can also go to Tools- Autocorrect-autoformat- and click on "ordinals with superscript" (in the "Replace" section)- this will then set Word to always superscript these automatically.

Answer 6

Enter the nd part then highlight - go to format, font and change to superscript, click OK.

Answer 7

well usually if u are on word and u write a date like 22nd it automatically changes to the date version after u press the spacebar