The Easy Way to Do Superscript in Google Docs
To add superscript to your text, follow these steps:
The Easy Way to Add Subscript in Google Docs
To add subscript to your text, follow these steps:
How to Subscript or Superscript Using Special Characters
When you need to do something a bit fancier with your superscript or subscript, you can use the Special Characters feature in Google Docs. While this option is a bit limited (it doesn’t offer trademark options, for instance), it can still offer a variety of choices you can’t get just by using the Format menu. Follow these steps to use special characters for your subscript or superscript:
How to Include Superscript or Subscript in Google Forms
If you’re building a form or survey in Google Docs, you can’t add superscript or subscript from inside the form. Instead, you need to paste the question to the form from a document where you have already formatted the superscript or subscript.
How to Undo Superscript or Subscript
To remove either type of formatting from your text, simply follow the steps you used to add the superscript or subscript in the first place. That will undo the formatting and place your text back to normal.
Why Use Superscript or Subscript in a Document?
When numbers or letters are written at a level above the main text to the right of a word and in a much smaller size, they are referred to as superscript. When they are written below the main text to the right of a word in a much smaller size, they are referred to as subscript. There are many reasons to include both superscript and subscript when you’re writing in Google Docs. In writing, superscript and subscript can indicate footnotes and other citations. Trademarks and service marks, for example, are written in superscript, like this: TrademarkTM. Mathematical equations, scientific equations, and other types of writing also use superscript notations. Subscript is used in similar ways. A mathematical equation, for instance, might be written like this: An=An-1+An-2. Chemistry compounds, like H2O, also use subscripting.
