Newer versions of Powerpoint include an improved equation editor, which many would find satisfactory I still find it cumbersome and prefer to follow the tricks below for entering math. Since my paper is written in size 10 font, I had to tell MathType to use a size 10 font. These notes were written with Powerpoint 2007 in mind, but should apply to other versions as well. Instead, you have to tell Eqeuation Editor (or MathType, which I use) to load the appropriate font for its symbols. They will be displaced on the line you insert them on.

How do you superscript in Powerpoint To make text appear slightly above (superscript) or below (subscript) your regular text, you can. click on the box and type the text that has to go in the subscript. This creates a small dotted box in the subscript. In order to get inline equations to look right, you cannot simple make them smaller. To subscript a character in equation editor: Type an underscore РІР‚ВРІР‚в„ў. Unfortunately, it does not space the characters very well and ends up looking not as good as the inserted Equation Editor images. You can select up to six letters, and will take those six letters and put 3 on top and 3 on the bottom-basically doing subscript and superscript at the same time. I did find another intersting feature of word called 'combine letters'. It just means that while looking at the document via Word, it gets chopped off. Luckly, I printed out a copy and terms in the printed out copy look fine. However, this crops the upper and lower portions of the inline equation, which makes parts of the subscripts get chopped off.

Next, after your question sign, insert space for the division operator. If you are outside the box you wonРІР‚в„ўt be able to keep using the equation editor tools to build the rest of your equation. This is fixxed by setting the paragraph format to 'exactly 12' instead of 'single'. s 2 Р’С— Make sure you are in the equation editor box when you type your equal sign. MathType allows you many more options than Equation Editor: it gives you many more choices of math symbols, it makes nicer looking equations, and it allows for the automatic numbering and referencing of equation numbers, as discussed more below. The biggest problem with putting the equations inline into my document is that it messes up the spacing, as Anubis 2 points out. Think of MathType as a beefed-up version of the standard Equation Editor.

Using Equation editor, I have found a solution that works (though is somewhat slow given I have many of these terms in my paper).

Subscript in powerpoint equation editor