I've never seen superscript used in Outlook emails, at least not
automatically.  But it does appear to be used automatically in word.

Miriam

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Rebecca Lineberger
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Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Superscript in Word 2016

Adrian, for what this is worth, smile.
The Microsoft support page says:
Insert subscript or superscript text
Applies To: Word for Office 365,Outlook for Office 365,Word 2016,Outlook
2016,Word 2013,Outlook 2013,Word 2010,Outlook 2010,Word 2007,Outlook
2007,Word Online,Word Starter 2010, Less article Superscript and subscript
refer to numbers that are positioned slightly higher or slightly lower than
the text on the line. For example, chemical formulas use subscript (H2O),
and an exponent is often formatted as a superscript (X4).

Examples of Subscript and Superscript formatting

Make text subscript or superscript
list of 3 items
1. Select the text that you want to format as subscript or superscript.

2. Do one of the following:

list of 2 items nesting level 1
On the Home tab, in the Font group, click Subscript. Or press CTRL+=.

the subscript command in the font group

On the Home tab, in the Font group, click Superscript. Or press
CTRL+SHIFT+=.

the superscript command in the font group list end nesting level 1

Note: Keyboard shortcuts do not work if you are using Word Online.

3. To undo the formatting, click the Subscript or Superscript button again,
or repeat the keyboard shortcut.
list end
I tried this, and JAWS 2018 does not tell me that the th in 4th, for example
is written in superscript.  
In Office 2010, under options, proofing, I can choose to have superscript
and subscript used or not.  I've played with settings, but again, JAWS 2018
does not tell me.  Perhaps there's a setting in JAWS that needs to be
enabled that I don't know about?  Smile.  
Or perhaps Word is ignoring instructions?  LOL.  I've not asked a sighted
person to check.
Rebecca
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Behalf Of Adrian Spratt
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2018 9:45 AM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Superscript in Word 2016

Hi. In previous versions of Word, superscript would be verbalized when I
moved character by character. also, when I typed a number such as 14th, Word
would automatically make the "th" superscript. Neither is happening with
Word 2016 and the current release of JAWS 2018. Even more disconcerting, a
sighted assistant tells me that sometimes the "th" or "nd" is superscript,
sometimes not, probably because I'm working in a document created in an
earlier version of Word.

Can anyone suggest how:

  1.  To get Word to make "th" and "nd" in numbers like 14th and 2nd
automatically appear as superscript?
  2.  To get JAWS to report superscript, and also subscript, in Word
documents? I looked at the intermediate settings  for anything that might
help, but nothing leapt out.

Note: Superscript is handled fine in Outlook 2016, which I have tethered to
Word 2016.

Thanks.
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