Fractions and Autoformatting

[terry]

Sometimes my program will automatically shrink the fractions. I have gone
into the tools menu and checked and it should occur but it does not. Is
there a way for me to customize the fractions so they appear like the others
that do shrink?
Please and Thank-you

 

[Jay Freedman]

Sometimes my program will automatically shrink the fractions. I have gone
into the tools menu and checked and it should occur but it does not. Is
there a way for me to customize the fractions so they appear like the others
that do shrink?
Please and Thank-you

See
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CreateFraction.htm
http://www.gmayor.com/createfraction.htm

 

[Pat Garard]

G'Day Terry,

Most fonts include single characters that represent fractions. The following
single characters appear 'shrunk' only because they take up the space of a
single character:
¼ ALT+0188
½ ALT+0189
¾ ALT+0190.

Word supports other characters that this News Reader application (Outlook
Express) does not support. Those characters represent the fractions:
1/3 2153 followed by ALT+X
2/3 2154 followed by ALT+X
1/8 215B followed by ALT+X
3/8 215C followed by ALT+X
5/8 215D followed by ALT+X
7/8 215E followed by ALT+X.

These are the ONLY fractions generally available to Word as characters.

To improve on this,see:
http://www.gmayor.com/createfraction.htm (also has the VBA code)
or
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CreateFraction.htm
for the general method.