Automatically superscript
SolvedMarzhine Posted messages 435 Registration date Status Membre Last intervention -
Hello everyone,
Previously, when I wrote for example Ve automatically, the e would appear as a superscript, but not anymore. How can I fix this?
Thank you in advance for your responses.
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Hello,
I'm getting back to this topic where Brucine is absolutely right. There are too many letters that are used for Roman numerals.
That said, it all depends on what you're entering. For example, if you're entering a large history document concerning certain centuries that keep coming up, it's enough to create a few formatted autocorrects to replace XVII, XVIII, etc. with the formatted replacement.
If you don't know how to do a formatted replace, I explain it here:
Here is also a macro that might interest you:
m@rina
Hello, I don’t know what you’re working on, whether it’s word processing or something else.
However, if it’s word processing on Word, you can try the following steps:
- When your page is open, click on the File tab
- Go to "Options" (at the bottom left)
- Go to the "Proofing" menu
- Click on the "AutoCorrect Options..." button (on the right)
- Select the "While Typing" tab and check that the box "Ordinals (1st) superscript is checked in the first section
- Do the same in the "AutoFormat As You Type" tab.
There you go, I hope this helps. For your information, I tested it with "Ve" and "Vème," and it doesn’t work because I think Word interprets it as a word, but it works very well with 1st and 2nd. Otherwise, for cases that don’t work, you can do it manually with the function that Word offers in the Home tab under font size or with the shortcut [ctrl] + [shift] + [+] while selecting the text to be superscript.
Best regards,
Hello
In automatic corrections, there is the possibility of putting the ending of an ordinal number in superscript.
For example, er in 1st or ème in 2nd.
Doing the same automatically with letters can lead to confusion.
For example, automatically putting the e in superscript in Me (abbreviation for Master) will be problematic if Me is meant to be a personal pronoun.
What is well conceived is clearly stated,
And the words to say it come easily.
(Boileau)
Hello,
As far as I remember, there is no automatic century correction in Word unless, of course, we add it ourselves, but that can also be annoying if I prefer the abbreviation Ve for Friday, or it would require entering an improbable call abbreviation, for example V&.
Let’s recall that typographic standards dictate that, in principle, characters should be in small capitals, so normally one should choose superscript small capitals.
A question of this kind was raised a few months ago; an alternative in a text that contains "many centuries" is to write anything in bulk (for example V&) and then do a find-replace; we can also, as was done at that time and should still be present on the forum, perform a more sophisticated find-replace that will recognize an appropriate sequence of Roman numerals (from X, it’s easy; before that, it’s more complicated).
I just realized that for 1st and 2nd, for example, the exponent is added automatically. It's only with Roman numerals.
You had personalized it, no version of Word allows that by default, so you have to remember this customization.
There aren't infinite ways:
-We might imagine that a specific Windows language could analyze Roman numerals as ordinals; even if that existed, it's fragile, what would happen when I write "ninth"?
-There may also be, I don't know, a Word add-in that does the conversion; if that's the case, it's just VBA, we'll get back to that.
-Usual keyboard shortcut CTRL Shift + (but it doesn't fully express its thought since the standard is small capitals).
-"Dictionary" of automatic correction as suggested here:
https://forums.commentcamarche.net/forum/affich-35131672-ecrire-les-siecles#5
-Simple find-replace but you have to redo it for each century, it's tedious:
https://forums.commentcamarche.net/forum/affich-35131672-ecrire-les-siecles#9
-Workaround by writing out the centuries in XIVe mode and then replacing in three steps, same comment as above:
https://forums.commentcamarche.net/forum/affich-37772396-rechercher-remplacer-mise-en-exposant#1
-Generic multiple find and replace:
https://forums.commentcamarche.net/forum/affich-37772396-rechercher-remplacer-mise-en-exposant#3
For all research avenues, I don't remember if Word keeps the history upon closing; if not, you would need to keep the template of the generic syntax above in a text file for copy-pasting.
-Macro that you create yourself or borrow:
https://forums.commentcamarche.net/forum/affich-35131672-ecrire-les-siecles#8
Good evening Marina,
I am going to create a macro; I would like it to be useful for all documents. What I don't understand is that I could do it before and I was told that Word doesn't offer it....
Thank you very much (once again ;)
And yes, we can see your message in full and your links work very well too.