Once you have created your fraction, the easiest way to use it is to define it as an AutoCorrect entry. You will need to look around and find the one you like the best. There are several good options for this "improved slash," depending on the font you are using. The reason you may want to do this is that the slash used in the single-character fonts built into Word (you remember-those created when you type the characters "1/2") uses a slash that is at a different angle than the slash shown when you simply type a slash.
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#STACKING FRACTIONS IN MICROSOFT WORD HOW TO#
Many of the formatting settings depend on which font you are using, but you can use the following steps as guidance for how to proceed: One way around this conundrum is to fiddle with the font characteristics of the numbers in your fraction so that the fraction appears as desired. Most fonts, however, don't have such characters for other less-common fractions.
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This is because Word replaces those characters with actual single-character font representations of those fractions. The same is true for other common fractions, such as 1/4 and 3/4. You may have noticed that if you type 1/2 in a Word document, the characters are converted automatically to a very nicely formatted fraction.