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Africa Today Manual Superscripting Instructions

• Method One: Using MS Word's Quick Keys
• Method Two: Using the Superscript Button by Adding it to the Toolbar
• Additional comments

If you are working in MS Word 97/2000, you do have the capability to manually superscript, even in some of its more antiquated versions. I assume you are working in one of the MS Word formats because that is the format in which we have received your email attachments. Here are the requisite instructions; There are two ways to accomplish this task. the first is easier than the second. BEFORE APPLYING EITHER TECHNIQUE, select and copy your endnote text at manuscript's end into another document and save it.

Method One: Using MS Word's Quick Keys

1. Locate the first endnote number in the running text of your manuscript and highlight it (Shift + Arrow).
2. Delete the character you've just deleted and use the following command: Hold down CTRL and Shift and hit the Plus(+) Key.
3. Type the number you've just deleted. You have just manually superscripted the requisite endnote.
4. Use the same command to deactivate the superscript function.
5. Repeat for all remaining endnote numbers in the running text until all are manually superscripted.

If this doesn't work, right mouse click on your toolbar, select Customize (it's at the bottom); then select the Keyboard button on the bottom row of the newly opened box; select Format on the lefthand side, and then scroll down the righthand side until you locate the word Superscript. A small box will have the words "Current Keys" above it. Inside the box will be displayed the particular command or commands you can enter to manually superscipt the number. Actually, this information is quite functional for other tasks too, because you can select to keys, merely by striking them in conjunction, which will perform a given task for you. Some of the commands are taken, but if you have the time, you can find combinatins which will perform your given task through trial-and-error. Here's the second method.

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Method Two: Using the Superscript Button by Adding it to the Toolbar

1. Right mouse click on an empty space on your toolbar above your document.
2. Select "Customize" from the menu; it is at the bottom.
3. From the top tab, select the "Commands" tab; the other two are called "Toolbars" and "Options," respectively.
4. Select "Format" from the lefthand column.
5. Once selected, scroll down the right side until you see "Superscript" and its accompanying symbol. Click and drag the symbol onto the toolbar.
6. Locate the first endnote number in the running text of your manuscript and highlight it (Shift+Arrow).
7. Delete the character and then click the Superscript toolbar button you've just added to the toolbar.
8. Type the number you've just deleted. You have just manually superscripted the requisite endnote.
9. Repeat the replacement procedure (From Numbers 6-8) for the remaining endnotes.

Once you've manually superscripted each endnote number in the running text, you'll need to manually number each endnote number which accompanies the endnote text at the end of the manuscript and the task will be complete.

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Additional Comments

The hidden text which is created by the normal functioning of the normal functioning of endnote/footnoting features of most wordprocessors simply cannot be read by the computers at IU Press. When numbers are not manually superscripted, there is a hardline, either at the bottom or top of the page, which is extremely difficult to remove. Simultaneously, the endnote text disappears. If it cannot be viewed on the screen at the same time as other, non-endnote text, then it is considered "hidden," and cannot be extracted for printing. It is for this reason that we request that authors manually superscirpt their endnote numbers in the running text, and render them in normal font in the aftermatter section of the endnote text itself.

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