Format text as subscript or superscript.How to subscript and superscript text values.What is superscript and subscript in Excel?.However, it does have a lot of tricks of its own. Please remember, Microsoft Word is all about text and Excel is about numbers, it can't do all Word tricks. So is the case with superscript and subscript formats - available on the Word ribbon, they are nowhere to be found in Excel. Microsoft Office users sometimes wonder why a particular feature is present in one Office application and absent in another. This tutorial will teach you a few quick ways to insert superscript and subscript in Excel, both for text values and numbers.