Subscript appears slightly lower and smaller than the primary text, while superscript appears slightly higher and smaller than the primary text (like an exponent, 83).

You can also adjust the baseline shifted text to be higher or lower to suit your needs.

So be in either of those apps and start typing as usual, then when you hit the point where you want to insert superscript or subscript text just do the following.

Subscript and superscript are also supported in the Microsoft Office suite for Mac too.

Speaking of Office, if you are aiming to type the baseline shifted text in Pages and then save the file as a Word.doc you may run into some formatting issues, depending on the version of Word and Office in use on the other end.

For those situations, it may be best to save the file as a PDF and send that across platforms instead.

Hitting the key sequence again will move the next typed text to regular baseline.

Also, run the same process and substitute Shift for the - to get into Superscript.

I had trouble using Catherines method until I held the Control and Command keys down through the whole process.

By the way, it makes no difference what order you hold the C and C keys down.

You must follow the instructions as discussed to be able to type the proper subscriptsuperscript on Mac keyboards.

I always have to use the menu option Font Baseline Superscript.

Then repeat 1) control 2) command 3) to get out of subscript mode.

For Subscript, follow the same sequence but hit the - key instead of the key.

Follow the sequence again to go back to your regular font size.

Imagine typing a chem test with 30 or more formulas Hope Apple will fix this someday Subscripts and Superscripts are non-existent in the Pages for iOS.

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Superscript In Excel For Mac