Superscripted letters

With the latest version of pages some text/words are disappeared at printing. I can see them CLEARLY at the desktop. It is especially text/words starting with superscripted letters.
What did I wrong?
Frank

Ok. Tables. I recreated Monday and Tuesday in Pages v4.3. Though not your font, I chose Helvetica Regular.
Pages v5.1 reads in the document without changing the content. Even when telling it to convert the original document to Pages v5 format. When exporting to PDF Best, Monday's superscript and following text in that cell are dropped. Tuesday retains the superscript, but drops all trailing text.
Because it is an infant (don't let the version number progression fool you), Pages v5 is missing at least 100 features that were in v4.3. It also uses a completely new, and backwards incompatible document architecture, that continues to use the .pages extension.
It would appear, relative to the preceding paragraph, that Pages v5 does not handle tabular cell text translation to PDF as well as it does regular body text. I would recommend you resume the use of Pages v4.3 only for productive work completion.

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