Special characters to show a number to a power?

  • Thread starter Jim Burke in Novi
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Jim Burke in Novi

Is there a way I can create a field that has a number in it that is smaller
and raised,or at least raised, when denoting, for example, a number squared?
I'm talking about for printing purposes only, not about the math function.
Right now I have two separate fields, one for the value being raised to the
power, and another for the power itself, with the latter displayed slightly
above the former.
 
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Douglas J. Steele

If your NumLock is on, try holding down the Alt key while entering 0178 to
get ² and 0179 to get ³. Those are the only two exponents you can get that
way, though: for any others, you'd have to use an RTF control.
 
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Jim Burke in Novi

I tried what you suggested and it doesn't do anything, just makes a sound
when I try to type the numbers while holding the alt key. I had numlock on
when trying this. AM I missing something? How do I create an RTF control and
how would I accomplish this once I have the field created? Thanks for your
help.
 
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John Nurick

Hi Jim,

Unicode defines a range of superscript numerals (in the range U+2070 to
70). Some fonts - e.g. Arial Unicode MS and Lucida Sans Unicode -
include glyphs at these positions.

I believe there's some way to enter Unicode characters via the numeric
keypad, but I always use a laptop and find it easier to find the
characters with charmap.exe and then paste them into Access.
 
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Jim Burke in Novi

I was able to copy and paste the example Doug had since I only needed the
raised 2, so for now that's good enough! Not sure why I couldn't just get the
num lock/alt version to work.
 
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