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  rooksheathscience · Member · Apr 3, 2012 at 6:11 am

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  When I write a blog that requires numbers written in standard form it looks fine in the edit phase but doesn’t in the actual post. How can I make sure the post displays standard form.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 3, 2012 at 8:48 pm

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  I don’t know what you mean by “standard form”. Will you please expand on that?

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  rooksheathscience · Member · Apr 3, 2012 at 8:51 pm

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  Its a way of writing large numbers. Instead of writing 10000000 you can write it as 1×10 7, where the 7 is superscript.
  I write my blogs in workd first then copy and paste it to my blog and it looks ok in the edit phase but when I publish it doesn’t.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 3, 2012 at 8:56 pm

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  By “workd” do you mean (shudder) Microsoft Word? If you have been copying and pasting text from elsewhere without using either icon 5 or icon 6 in Row 2 of the visual editor, please see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text

  Go to Settings > Writing and select “ ___ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” and then scroll down and click “Save Changes.”

  Posts > All Posts, change all your latest posts to Draft, click Update, change them back to Published, click Update again. (You can edit all of them at once: tick the square in front of their titles then select Edit from the Bulk Actions dropdown and click Apply.)

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  dlager · Member · Apr 3, 2012 at 9:11 pm

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  also you might consider you might consider writing the numbers in scientific notation in the HTML mode of the post edior:

  1 * 10 <sup> 7 </sup>

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  dlager · Member · Apr 3, 2012 at 9:13 pm

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  oops,
  let me amend that for clarity,

  <sup> text </sup>

  is the HTML mark up for superscript for any characters
  Not actually any mathematical value.

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  rooksheathscience · Member · Apr 3, 2012 at 10:30 pm

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  I tried using the word icon on row 2 and it made no difference. If I used the visual editor directly how can I produce superscript or subscript?

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  dlager · Member · Apr 4, 2012 at 2:31 am

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  1. in the future consider using a blog editor such as Windows Live Writer instead pasting from a Word processor such as MS-word.

  2. There is no button on wordpress “Visual Editor” for Easy superscript.
  Try instead to:

  – click on the “HTML” on the upper right of the editor window.
  – find the exponential number that you want in Superscript.
  -right before that number type:
  <sup>
  – then move your cursor to just after that number and type:
  </sup>

  -then click the “Visual” tab on the upper left of the editor window, that should put you back in visual mode.

  try and experiment with that on a “Scrap” post that you won’t ever publish.

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  rooksheathscience · Member · Apr 4, 2012 at 5:06 am

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  I can’t get the superscript button on windows live writer to work. Everything else does.