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Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / December 2006Underlined, superscripted text
I am using PowerPoint 2004 for Mac and I have a title with superscripted text that I would like to underline. When underlining the text the underline is also superscripted rather than being aligned with the rest of the regular text. This looks terrible. I have searched for solutions, but haven't found any. I did find this knowledge base article that applies to earlier versions of Word for Mac. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/81418/en-us I have confirmed that Word 2004 for Mac displays the underlined, superscripted text correctly. For whatever reason the problem still remains in PowerPoint 2004. When opening the same file in PowerPoint 2000 for PC the text is displayed properly. Any ideas besides the workarounds from the article? Thanks for your help. -Dray I'm not at my Mac to check, but what happens if you apply the superscript first, then apply the underline?  SignatureRegards |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac >I am using PowerPoint 2004 for Mac and I have a title with > superscripted text that I would like to underline. When underlining [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > -Dray The order in which the superscripting and underlining is done doesn't make any difference for me. -Dray Just a thought... I was on a PC at the time & it worked in PPt 2004, so I hoped it would help. Have been messing with it a little since I got home with no more success than you've had - even tried copying from Word & it still went flippant when pasted into PPt. Sorry I don't have a better suggestion :-{ Regards |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac Hi, In an experiment on a slide I typed: Two squared2 I then selected the 2, from the Font menu chose Format, clicked the superscript (30pts) checkbox, and clicked OK. The 2 was then superscript. If I positioned the type selection cursor immediately in front of the 2 and selected the word "squared" without including the letter 2 I was able to underline the word without underlining the superscripted 2. If I attempted to select more than the the word "squared" the moment the space in between the words was selected the 2 also became selected. It seems that the solution is to select the letters of only one word at a time and then underline those. -Jim Gordon Mac MVP Quoting from "darinaray@hotmail.com" <darinaray@hotmail.com>, in article 1165343912.996942.19020@n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com, on [DATE: > I am using PowerPoint 2004 for Mac and I have a title with > superscripted text that I would like to underline. When underlining [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > -Dray SignatureJim Gordon Mac MVP MVPs are not Microsoft Employees MVP info http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Hi Jim - As I understood the op, he wants to have the superscripted text underlined but wants the underlining to be at the same baseline as the underlined regular text. No matter how I go about it any attempt to underline the superscripted content results in the underline being superscripted as well. Any ideas? Regards |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac Bob, You are correct. I am preparing a technical presentation and would like the following text to be on one of the slides - (mg/cm2) where the 2 is superscripted and all of the text is underlined. The best workaround that I have come up with is to insert a table and enter the text (mg/cm2) with the 2 superscripted into one of the cells. Then using the Border and Fill options I select only to display the border at the bottom of the cell. By changing the vertical alignment of the text, the internal cell margins and the cell width I can get it to look like it is underlined text. It doesn't look great, but it looks better than having the underline superscripted. It is too bad that PowerPoint doesn't treat this type of text the same way as Word which behaves as it should. I am still open to suggestions if someone can find a better solution! -Dray NEWS FLASH - but not *thoroughly* tested; It appears, oddly enough, that if you do it in Word then copy/paste to PPt the baseline underlining will hold. HTH |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac > Bob, > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > it should. I am still open to suggestions if someone can find a better > solution! Have a look here: Double-Underline text http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00775.htm This double-underlines selected text but you can easily delete the bit that duplicates the first underline and offsets it. ================================================ Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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