Special characters to show a number to a power?

[Guest]

Is there a way I can create a field that has a number in it that is smaller
and raised,or at least raised, when denoting, for example, a number squared?
I'm talking about for printing purposes only, not about the math function.
Right now I have two separate fields, one for the value being raised to the
power, and another for the power itself, with the latter displayed slightly
above the former.

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

If your NumLock is on, try holding down the Alt key while entering 0178 to
get ² and 0179 to get ³. Those are the only two exponents you can get that
way, though: for any others, you'd have to use an RTF control.

 

[Guest]

I tried what you suggested and it doesn't do anything, just makes a sound
when I try to type the numbers while holding the alt key. I had numlock on
when trying this. AM I missing something? How do I create an RTF control and
how would I accomplish this once I have the field created? Thanks for your
help.

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

As you can see, I was able to use those keys. I suspect that it may depend
on the font, though.

For a free RTF control and an introduction to the topic, see what Stephen
Lebans has at http://www.lebans.com/richtext.htm

 

[John Nurick]

Hi Jim,

Unicode defines a range of superscript numerals (in the range U+2070 to
70). Some fonts - e.g. Arial Unicode MS and Lucida Sans Unicode -
include glyphs at these positions.

I believe there's some way to enter Unicode characters via the numeric
keypad, but I always use a laptop and find it easier to find the
characters with charmap.exe and then paste them into Access.

 

[Guest]

I was able to copy and paste the example Doug had since I only needed the
raised 2, so for now that's good enough! Not sure why I couldn't just get the
num lock/alt version to work.