Keyboard sequences for subscripts

[Guest]

I'd like to be able to enter a subscript in a line of text without lifting my
hands from the keyboard.

PowerPoint suggests using Ctrl(=) to enter subscript mode. That works just
fine. PowerPoint suggests using Ctrl(spacebar) to exit subscript mode and
return to normal text. This fails. The only character you can type *after*
typing Ctrl(spacebar) is actually the spacebar. Then you've got to bo back
and delete the space that you created later.

This would appear to be a bug in PowerPoint.

Note that Word allows you to type Ctrl(=) again to exit subscript mode. Why
is this simple feature not available in PowerPoint as well?

For those of us who type a lot of subscripts and superscripts this is a real
downer.

Thanks,

 

[Bill Dilworth]

In 2003 ...
Did you try using the Ctl + '=' as a toggle for the sub/super-script
functions? Once to start sub, once to stop.

In 2007 ...
In 2007 the super/sub-scripting toggle feature appears to be broken. I
would look to one of the SPs to fix it, but I would not venture a guess as
to which one. The font engine was drastically overhauled in this version
and some small things get past even the strictest testing.

If you are a coder, you could write a key-trap that looks to see if you
are already in sub-script mode and if the Ctl + = is hit again, return to
normal mode. Essentially, writing the patch for MS, but I don't see where
this could lead. It would be a bit of work with little reward that is
outdated by the time its perfected -- as it were.


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[Guest]

Bill,

Actually that was a bigger help than you might imagine. Sometimes it's nice
to know, after wrestling with something for longer than one would care to
admit, that one is not actually insane but there is really something wrong
with the software.

My guess is that I could write VB macros for this ... if I had the slightest
idea how. I remember I once wanted to know how to change the relative size
of the subscripts and someone wrote me a little VB code for that, but that
was years ago.

And yes it worked just fine in 2003. I think.

Cp2M (that "2" is subscripted there! LOL)