Special Characters on Mac

I'm taking an online math class and I'm trying to figure out how to type the squared symbol using my mac. I looked in my owners manual and looked in my system preferences trying to find special characters but I haven't been able to find any. Does anywhere know if this can be done and where I can find it?

If you are talking about the 2 in x², it has unicode number 00B2, and can be found in the Character Palette. I'm afraid I don't know of any generic keyboard shortcut to get to it, but there may be shortcuts in the program you use to create a superscript instead.
In TextEdit you use the menus Font > Baseline > Superscript. In MS Word it is in the Font dialog and as an icon in the Formatting Palette, but you could also build a macro to insert it.
Some fonts have superscript included in the typography panel. In (for example) TextEdit choose Format > Font. Select (for example) Zapfino. Click on the little wheel in the bottom left corner of the font palette and select Typography. In the Typography panel choose "Vertical Position" and Superscript. The advantage with this solution is that the layout gets clean. The problems are that a) it is cumbersome to get to, b) the superscript will disappear if you later choose to use another font like Times.

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Surutai1982 wrote:
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