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Old 14th July 2012, 10:58 AM   #1
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How can I add st, nd, rd and th to dates and have them in small characters? If I insert a Word document which has these the line spacing goes wrong and only when I remove the small figures does it reset.
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How can I add st, nd, rd and th to dates and have them in small characters? If I insert a Word document which has these the line spacing goes wrong and only when I remove the small figures does it reset.
There's a setting somewhere that allows for text advances - you need to change this from the default. I think it is under paragraph settings.

In PP, you apply a style set using superscripting and baseline shift, I think.
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How can I add st, nd, rd and th to dates and have them in small characters? If I insert a Word document which has these the line spacing goes wrong and only when I remove the small figures does it reset.
Welcome to the Serif forums, Teditor.

Go to 'Format > Paragraph' (Ctrl+M) and clear the 'Allow for text advances' checkbox.

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How can I add st, nd, rd and th to dates and have them in small characters? If I insert a Word document which has these the line spacing goes wrong and only when I remove the small figures does it reset.
Good morning.

I select the letters and set their character format to superscript, 2 pts smaller.
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There's a setting somewhere that allows for text advances - you need to change this from the default. I think it is under paragraph settings.
Yup. That's where it is!

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Old 14th July 2012, 11:08 AM   #6
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I select the letters and set their character format to superscript, 2 pts smaller.
That doesn't fix the line spacing problem, does it?

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That doesn't fix the line spacing problem, does it?

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No, but it answers the other question. You answered one, Marilyn answered the other, whilst I, having had my wake-up coffee, answered both.
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No, but it answers the other question. You answered one, Marilyn answered the other, whilst I, having had my wake-up coffee, answered both.
Well, that explains it. I haven't yet had any caffeine today!

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That doesn't fix the line spacing problem, does it?

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I don't see a line spacing problem in the sample I just did in PP X5.

Make a text frame, fill with placeholder text, in the text enter 1st, 2nd, 3rd and etc. Then apply the character formatting, superscript and reduce point size.
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I don't see a line spacing problem in the sample I just did in PP X5.

Make a text frame, fill with placeholder text, in the text enter 1st, 2nd, 3rd and etc. Then apply the character formatting, superscript and reduce point size.
Maybe you have the text advances setting set to off, or the effect in your case is so small, you can't see it.
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Maybe you have the text advances setting set to off, or the effect in your case is so small, you can't see it.
12pt text with 10pt superscript.
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Old 14th July 2012, 11:47 AM   #12
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12pt text with 10pt superscript.
That doesn't really tell me anything! The point is that either the changes you have made to the text don't affect text advances very much (almost invisibly) or you have that setting switched off.
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Old 14th July 2012, 11:52 AM   #13
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Don't overlook that Teditor inserted a Word document so the text advances setting may have come from there. I've had it happen.

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Make a text frame, fill with placeholder text, in the text enter 1st, 2nd, 3rd and etc. Then apply the character formatting, superscript and reduce point size.
I don't actually see the ... er ... point of reducing the point size. Superscripted text is automagically reduced in size by a suitable amount, and manually reducing the size even further simply lowers the tops of the letters so that they look funny, IMO.

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I don't actually see the ... er ... point of reducing the point size. Superscripted text is automagically reduced in size by a suitable amount, and manually reducing the size even further simply lowers the tops of the letters so that they look funny, IMO.
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