Superscripts are letters, numbers or symbols set slightly above the normal line of text. You see them frequently in chemical formulas, mathematical equations and footnotes. You could indicate a ...

A subscript is a number placed below normal text when you're writing or typing, such as in the chemical formula H2O for water. It's commonly found in chemical formulas like that one, which you may ...

If you work with a lot of superscripts and subscripts in Office (both the 2004 or 2008 versions of the suite), you can make your job easier by adding the superscript and subscript buttons to the ...