I am sure that there must be a way to do this but so far cannot find any suggestions. I want to write 1st and 2nd etc but want the letters to appear in smaller fonts and at the top of the number not the bottom, is there a way to tell my Mac to do this?
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iMac (M1, 2021)
What you seem to want, is called a superscript.
In Pages, highlight the "nd" or "th" then click on the brush icon (Format) at the top of the side panel on the right, then click on the gear icon under the font size dropdown, then select the superscript option from the Baseline dropdown.
On the Mac, as your profile suggests, there are several ways to introduce numerical superscripts, some better looking than others.
As Peggy has mentioned, the numerical suffixes will give you (sort of) superscripts but the result is half way up the number. That effect is rather insulting to the notion of superscript:
Without that Pages Settings > Auto-Correction choice, one can create the identical result by entering the number, and the text, select that text and then from Format > Font > Baseline > Superscript.
And then there is the equation editor approach which produces a more representative superscript result:
from:
though a simple 1^\mathsf{st} entered in the equation editor would produce the first result above inline with your existing text.
I might add that Microsoft Word v16.97 has a Preference > AutoCorrect setting : Ordinals (1st) with superscript that produces the following result when typing 1st. No equation editor necessary.
The Pages product team could learn from this.
Go to Settings > Auto-Correction & check "Superscript numerical suffixes."
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