
Tip After you click X2 everything you type is in the exponent format until you click X2 again. Step 3 Click X2 again to return to the regular size font. Advertisement Video of the Day Step 2 Type the exponent. You can format your email with all the beautiful fonts at your disposal but, once the email message has been sent through the ether as ones and zeros and reaches the computer at the other end, if all they have on their computer is Courier, that's what your message will appear in. To type an exponent, place the cursor where you want the exponent and then click X2 in the Home tab. The message ends up in whatever typeface is on the typewriter.Įmail is not unlike that (but without the boy on a bicycle). Your friend never sees the beautiful calligraphy because the telegraph office doesn't have a calligrapher on the other end. Most of the time, it will just be the same as the rest of your numbers and text, which means you can simply leave it as normal text.

Select Symbols then choose More Symbols to reveal a popup menu. At the other end, the operator receives the messages, types it out on a typewriter and has the boy on a bicycle deliver to your friend. Select the Symbol tab from the Insert menu. The telegraph operator translates it into dots and dashes and sends your message on its merry way.

You take it to the telegraph office (hopefully, you're old enough to understand this!). You hand write, in beautiful calligraphy, a message to a friend. Above the power '3', there is no keyboard shortcut available, it will depend on where you want to write your power or your exponent: In Microsoft tools (Word, Powerpoint, Outlook, etc.): The easiest way is to select the figure to be superseded then to use the following keyboard shortcut : Ctrl + Shift + (ie the key ' + ' to the left of the Return key). (1) "Limited control" is worth thinking about.
