How do I cube/square

Hello Anders,

you can type this with super scripted text. For that, type the entire term like "10-27". Now select the "-27" and use the option "Baseline Shift" in the "More" tab panel of the "Text" inspector. To complete thia, lower the font size (shortcut: "command"+"-") or use the font panel (shortcut: "command"+"T").

This will rise the line spacing, so be sure this will not break your paragraph layout.

Create a character style of it (use the underlined "a" button in the styles drawer to show the character styles) and you have what you need for further use.

The mass of a proton is 1.673 x 10^(-27) (That is 10
cube with -27)

I tried Special Characters without any luck.

The previous replies contain the easiest solutions. Use them. However, you should also be able to do it using the Character Palette.

The trick is to expand the Character Info section - then highlight a number in Pages and either drag it to the Character Info field or use the wheel menu in the lower left corner of the Character Palette and choose "Show Character selected in Application".

Then you will see all variants there are of the different numbers, including superscripts, subscripts and Chinese versions.

For example for the number 5, I get the following variants: 5⁵₅⑤⑸⒌⓹❺㈤㊄㐅五伍５. The second one is the superscript.

The number you want to write can then be written as 1.673 x 10⁻²⁷.

The disadvantage with the Character Palette solution is that not necessarily all superscript letters are defined in the font you selected, so you may end up with a mix, which looks strange. Depending on your browser and browser settings, 10⁻²⁷ may not look very well aligned on this page. However, if you paste it into Pages and select for example Hoefler as font, it should look fine.

So why use it? The advantage is that you end up with plain text, which is easy to copy between applications and operating systems regardless of file format. In case you need to do that.

Pages will both adjust the baseline and do the resizing for you automatically if you select Format > Font > Baseline > Superscript.