Windows 10: subscript and superscript shortcuts not working

I am running windows 10 on an acer notebook and my subscript and superscript keyboard shortcuts are not working. When I depress control+equal for subscript, i get a zoom function instead, and when i depress control+Shift+plus, nothing happens. i have tried this in office, word, notes and my web browsers. other control+ functions are working, such as copy, cut, save, undo, etc. how can i remedy this?

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Subscript & Superscript

It's a pain, but you can technically type superscript and subscript numbers the manual way: H₂O

Explicit superscript and subscript tags would be easier though...

 

Subscript & Superscript

But there's no equivalent of the caret character for subscript. And the caret is just used by calculators to denote exponential expression. In the case of chemistry and Vega, it does not denote an exponent.

Looking up Unicode characters for subscript and superscript is really annoying.

 

Sub and superscript shortcuts for tool bar

Hi Larry

In certain circumstances in Excel you can use Superscript or Subscript, for example of your want to enter X squared, however, I have found this does not work for say, 2 squared . . .

Select the text to be superscripted, then click the tiny box at the bottom right of the Font section on the Home page, and on the resulting dialog, you can tick 'Superscript' . . .

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/format...

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