scientific notation

[Guest]

How do you type in on a Word document, numbers using scientific notation (10
to the power of x)?

 

[Bill Foley]

Use the Superscript feature. If you use them a lot, you can add the icons to a toolbar. To do so, use the following:

To add Superscript or Subscript to the toolbar area

1.. Right-click in the toolbar area
2.. Select Customize from the pop-up menu
3.. Click the Commands tab
4.. Click the Format category on the left
5.. Scroll down and find the Superscript and Subscript commands
6.. Drag each icon to an existing toolbar (I put them next to the "B", "I", "U" commands)
Now all you need to do is click the icon to turn it on, type your "power", click it again to turn it off, then continue typing.

 

[Guest]

If you were writing 1000 in scientific notation, you'd write 1E3, or 0.001
you'd write 1E-3.

I tried this in a table in WORD and to check whether WORD understood this, I
used the TABLE + Formula option to inset the SUM function in a cell within
the table. It did not work. BUT when I wrote 1000 as 1E+3, it did.