The 'TH' will change to superscript, but no other characters. This is
controlled by the Autocorrect List.
Within Entourage there is no way to insert formatted characters into the
ACL (or directly into a message).
It used to be possible to add formatted expansions to the ACL in Word
and have them picked up in Entourage, but this doesn't seem to be
working now.
Ahh, the light dawns!
the superscript 'TM' is almost certainly a unicode glyph, not two
characters formatted as superscript! (quick check ... yes, that's it!)
OK, here's how to do it for the number zero to nine...
First, make sure you can access the character palette for inputting
unicode charcaters. If you have your country 'flag' in tohe top right
hand side of your menubar, 'show character palette' may be listed there
- if it is, select it and the character palette appears.
If not, go to system prefs and the International pane. Under the 'input
menu' area of that pref, make sure there are check boxes against
'character palette' in the main window area and 'show input menu in menu
bar' at the bottom of the prefs window.
Now, open the 'autocorrect' window in Entourage (under the Tools menu).
put '^2' in the 'Replace:' box and move the cursor to the 'With:' box
Open the character palette from the keyboard input menu (the 'flag' icon
in the menu bar), and find the super/subscripts in the 'Digits' section
of the roman characters. Select the 'superscript 2' character and click
'Insert' - this character will be typed into the 'With:' box in the ACL
dialog in Entourage.
Click the 'Add' button in the ACL dialog and this shortcut is now in
place. Repeat with ^3, ^4 etc for all the other superscript digits (and
some suitable characters for subscripts, if you want them)
Close the ACL dialog.
Now, in an Entourage message window, type "42^2" and a space (or
return). The '^2' will be replaced with a superscript 2.
If you want something raised to the power of 64 (for example), you would
have to type "2^6^4 " - after the ^6' the superscript 6 would appear and
after the ^4 the superscript 4 would follow.
HTH!
