Pages Superscript

I think I have a pretty complicated one. I just bought a macbook air 13 and I am typing a physiology essay for pharm school in Pages. I have to use superscript and subscript. I found the shortcuts, control cmd + for super and control cmd - for sub. The subscript shortcut works great and I even notice that the format on the top bar will blink blue when I hit it. However this is not the case for the superscript, the shortcut does not work and the format icon will not blink. I have added the superscript and subscript to the toolbar for somewhat of a fix but I am a fan of keyboard shortcuts. Being new to mac os I thought there may be an easy fix I just don't know of. Thanks in advance.

NVM + is a shifted character

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