Subscripts - relative size

[Sluggo]

Hi,

I give a lot of powerpoint presentations and I'm a chemist, which means
I use a *lot* of superscripts and subscripts. My audiences often
complain that they can read everything just fine but they have trouble
making out the subscripts. I don't have room to make the whole font
larger. Therefore, I'd like to be able to have my subscripts be
*larger* in proportion to the normal font. Is there some way to set the
sizes of superscripts and subscripts relative to the normal?

Thanks,

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Sluggo,

How are you adding your superscripts/subscripts.

I know one way is to enter the text....e.g. e=mc2, then just highlight the 2, right click the 2, then choose
"font"...then tick superscript....then you can also select the font size (so allowing you to make it bigger) and/or make
it bold.

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
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[Sluggo]

TAJ,

Yeah I realize there are probably numerous ways to manually change each
character that I subscript to a different font size, but I've got to
write things like chemical formulas all the time, so what I'm after is a
global setting for the size of the subscript so that I can use the
CTRL-= keyboard shortcut and get, for example, a full-size subscript.

Any other ideas out there?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

You could either write or contract for a macro to be written that would
search the text for super/sub scripts and alter the font size. You would
need to run the macro manually, I would think, after the text has been
entered.

Obviously, this is a custom solution since PowerPoint is not able to do this
out of the box, which I suspect was your original question.

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[Bill Dilworth]

Elegant ...

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(No, the code, silly)

 

[Sluggo]

Steve,

I can pretty much make out what that code would do, and I'd love to try
it, but but I have no idea how ...

Thanks!

 

[Sluggo]

Steve,

Thanks I definitely will try that. Very helpful.

 

[Sluggo]

Steve,

I tried it and it works nicely. Thanks for the code and for pointing me
in the direction of a bit of text that I could read that would teach me
how to use it. I found I could multiply the surrounding font size by a
factor rather than just adding some fixed number too.

Now, one final request, how would I modify the code so that the macro
only operates on something that I have *highlighted* ?

Thanks! This really is educational.