How do I format uncommon fractions in Word?

[Guest]

Examples: 5/8, 3/16, 7/32

 

[Anne Troy]

Try this:
http://www.officearticles.com/misc/symbols_and_characters_in_microsoft_office.htm
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Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[Guest]

Try this:
http://www.officearticles.com/misc/symbols_and_characters_in_microsoft_office.htm
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Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

The link was very helpful for most special characters; however, I was
referring specifically to autoformatting uncommon fractions. Some of the
more unique uncommon fractions are included in the special character set
(e.g., 5/8, 7/8), but even those do not include unusual fractions such as
13/16. I thought there might be a way to autoformat these uncommonly used
fractions in Word since it does allow autoformatting of common fractions such
as 1/2 and 3/4. This may just be a limitation of Word.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CreateFraction.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Bruce Rusk]

What Word is doing is replacing the three characters 1 / 2 with one
character -- a half sign.

It's doing it for only certain fractions, in part, because a limitation of
fonts: there are single characters that represent certain fractions, but
only a few. Most fonts have the characters for 1/2, 3/4, 1/4, etc. There are
Unicode character codes for some other fractions -- thirds, fifths, sixths
and eigths -- but not all fonts have them, and there are none for 16ths or
32nds, so that won't help you.

Take a look at this page:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CreateFraction.htm

Depending on how complicated your needs are, either the super/sub script or
the equation editor solutions will work.