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Richard Chalmers - 18 Dec 2003 21:08 GMT

How would I get Word to make stacked fractions regardless of the fraction.
I figured out how to get it to do it with 1/2 and 3/4 and it won't do it for
any other values, like 7/9, for example. Also, the stacking only works with
certain fonts.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 18 Dec 2003 21:13 GMT

I think what you really want is shilling fractions rather than stacked
fractions. For information on both, see
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/CreateFraction.htm

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> How would I get Word to make stacked fractions regardless of the fraction.
> I figured out how to get it to do it with 1/2 and 3/4 and it won't do it for
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> Design Engineer, Weatherend Estate Furniture
> rchalmers@weatherend.com

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Hilary Ostrov - 19 Dec 2003 06:23 GMT

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:13:08 -0600, in
<#4l4PMbxDHA.1912@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
<sbarnhill@mvps.org> wrote:

>I think what you really want is shilling fractions rather than stacked
>fractions. For information on both, see
>http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/CreateFraction.htm

FWIW, I discovered one day (quite by accident!) that if you select
Insert->Symbol, then Font: Palatino Linotype and Subset: Superscripts
and Subscripts there are symbols for the / and 1/ as well as
Subscripts for 0 - 9 and Superscripts for 0 and 4 - 9. No idea what
happened to Superscripts for 2 and 3, though! Unfortunately not all
of them "translate" (for want of a better word!) well to other more
standard fonts, but they do offer a passable simulation of TNR or
Arial (if you don't look too closely).

Another (faster but not "shillingly correct"!) work-around I've used
is to create a Character style which applies Subscript to all the
selected characters and raises them 1 or 2pt. (depending on size of
font I'm using).

>> How would I get Word to make stacked fractions regardless of the fraction.
>> I figured out how to get it to do it with 1/2 and 3/4 and it won't do it
>for
>> any other values, like 7/9, for example. Also, the stacking only works
>with
>> certain fonts.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 19 Dec 2003 16:06 GMT

The reason the superscripts for 2 and 3 are missing is that they (and 1) are
already present in the Latin-1 subset of most Unicode fonts.

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> On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:13:08 -0600, in
> <#4l4PMbxDHA.1912@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
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Greg Maxey - 18 Dec 2003 21:19 GMT

Richard,

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

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> How would I get Word to make stacked fractions regardless of the
> fraction. I figured out how to get it to do it with 1/2 and 3/4 and
> it won't do it for any other values, like 7/9, for example. Also,
> the stacking only works with certain fonts.

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