Office 2021: How to use the “Find and Replace” tool to replace searched words with other words with superscripts?


For example, in the screenshot below, I need to find "R2" and replace it with "R²" (where the "2" is superscript). The “Replace with” box does not appear to have tools to enable typing "R" with a superscript "2".

Attached Images

Clip_1247.jpg (199.6 KB, 24 views)

Type "R" in the "Replace With" box of he “Find and Replace” tool, then type "00B2" followed immediately by "Alt+X". "00B2" will automatically be replaced with "²".
Alternatively, you can type "R²" in the document window, select it, then press Ctrl+C to copy it to the clipboard.
You can then paste the clipboard contents into the "Replace With" box of he “Find and Replace” tool.

Thank you for your help. The first method works fine, but I had no luck with the second one, which seems more intuitive based on the screenshots below. What could be wrong with the second method?

Attached Images

	Clip_1248.jpg (153.3 KB, 19 views)
	Clip_1249.jpg (154.7 KB, 19 views)
	Clip_1250.jpg (162.9 KB, 19 views)
	Clip_1251.jpg (160.7 KB, 19 views)
	Clip_1252.jpg (160.9 KB, 19 views)

You need to copy "R²" from the document window. But the “²” in the "R²" string must be Unicode U+00B2. To check this, place the insertion cursor right after the “²” character, then press Alt+X. You should get “00B2”.
To get a proper “²” in the "R²" string, type “R” followed by “00B2”, then Alt+X. If you type ordinary “2”, select it, then superscript it, you don’t get U+00B2. You get “0032”, which is Unicode for an ordinary space character. Maybe this is a bug in Word.

I would copy a properly formatted 'R²' to the clipboard and then use ^c in the Replace With field.

__________________
Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Pasting with “Ctrl+V” might be easier than typing “^c”… The problem is to copy a properly formatted “R²”… And to realize that the document “R²” might not be “properly formatted”…

Robert2

Your suggestion of actually pasting the formatted clipboard contents into the Replace with field removes the formatting that the OP was looking for. Using ^c allows the replace to preserve that formatting.

Looking at the OP's initial post and screen capture shows that there was an example that was already 'properly formatted'.

__________________
Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Maybe, but what exactly is “preserved”?
The OP’s screen capture shows nothing. It could be a “2” superscripted through the Font dialog. It could be a proper Unicode character with code “U+00B2”.
If I copy a “2” superscripted through the Font dialog, use “^c” in the Replace With box, then press Alt+X to reveal the code of the replaced superscripted “2” in the document window, I get “0032”.
On the other hand, if I copy a proper Unicode “SUPERSCRIPT TWO” character, use it in the Replace With box, the character that gets replaced (pasted) in the document window actually is Unicode “00B2”.