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Josh Pinto
Asked: 2013-01-22 04:07:33 +0800 CST

How do you insert subscripts and superscripts into ordinary (non-formula) text in LibreOffice Writer?

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I know that LibreOffice Writer can facilitate subscripts and superscripts in ordinary, non-formula, text—when I copy and paste such things from Microsoft Office Word 2007 documents LibreOffice Writer manages to accommodate them. My LibreOffice Writer version is 3.6.4.

I haven't managed to find any better place to ask this question, if there is please direct me to it. I am running 12.10 if it is relevant.

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  1. Best Answer

    Don't forget that Google is your friend.

    Keyboard Shortcut

    As detailed on the LibreOffice help site:

    • For superscript: Ctrl + SHIFT + P
    • For subscript: Ctrl + Shift + B
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  2. For a GUI solution

    Use Tools -> Customize... to open the following dialogue, then navigate as shown in the screenshot below:

    sub/sup menu items

    Adding these will add them to the menu bars and thus give easy gui-based formatting, as opposed to a shortcut.

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  3. This works on my keyboard set to English (US, alt, intl.)

    ralt + shift + . then 2 gets me ²

    ralt + shift + , then 2 gets me ₂

    and while I am at it:

    compose + 2 then 3 gets me ⅔

    This works in any application, including LibreOffice and the terminal.

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