We will also look at keyboard shortcuts that make these tasks even easier.įirst, let us look at some samples of subscripted and superscripted text, as shown highlighted in green within Figure 1, below.Īs you can see in Figure 1, above, subscripted text is the text that's smaller in size than the preceding text. None of these are ideal, so I would greatly appreciate any solutions.Do you need to frequently add subscript and superscript formatting to text in PowerPoint, or even in other Microsoft Office programs such as Word, Excel, and Outlook? Quite often, this formatting may take a while, and we will explore easier and faster ways to add subscripted and superscripted text. It seems at this point my options are only to use a different browser (but I really like Firefox), going back to the old version of Firefox and deal with the preferences tab coming up every time I type chemical formulas (annoying), or give up on using the keyboard shortcut entirely (inefficient).

Changing the Google keyboard shortcut does not appear to be an option, as noted here.

This worked to keep the preferences tab from appearing when I hit ⌘+, but it still does not subscript the selected text.

Adding a new keyboard shortcut for preferences so that ⌘+, doesn't do anything for the Mac, as described here.

This doesn't work because the shortcut isn't listed in Mac's system preferences, so there's nothing for me to disable or change.

Disabling or changing the ⌘+, shortcut on my Mac, as described here.

I recently updated to a newer version of Firefox, and now that key combination opens the preferences tab but does not do the subscript (annoying AND non-functional!). An older version would both perform the subscript and open the preferences tab, so I would have to continuously close the tab (annoying, but at least functional).

I, however, prefer to use Firefox as my browser.

When using Chrome, it works - it seems that Chrome has a built in override for this short cut. In the Google Suite, this is the keyboard shortcut for subscripting text. On a Mac, the shortcut ⌘+, is the shortcut for opening application preferences. I have run into a problem with creating subscripts. I teach chemistry and (have to) use Google Drive on a Mac for work.

Powerpoint mac subscript shortcut