Hardly dare ask such a dumb question but I can't work out how to write fractions like a half or a quarter. 1/2 and 1/4 aint it. Been faffing with help and the microsoft website help for ages and it's driving me nuts. Pretty Please, and no laughing.

Go to Insert - Object. Do you have Microsoft equation editor 3.0 or similar in the drop down menu? If you click on that a little box comes up and allows you to write any equations you like.

...or Tools -> AutoCorrect Options and clikc on the AutoFormat as you type tab. If there is an option like "Fractions (1/2) with fraction character (½)" check the box.

or bring up the character map and by using a combination of holding the alt key and 4 digits on the number bad brings up character.

² alt + 0178
¼ alt + 0188
½ alt + 0189
¾ alt + 0190
³ alt + 0179

note they will change depending on your font.

Have installed Equations from office tools and doesn't seem to have fractions in it. Checked the options box for fractions in autocorrect and that seems good for 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 but no others. Fiddling with super/subscript buttons allows something approaching what I want but I had hoped to be able to write 15/32 and then press 'alt + f' or something so that I could put fractions on the board etc rather than just in word documents. Thanks for the help.

¼, ♂

Try the insert menu and symbol, this gives you all of the available symbols any available font listed by font.
I think the only way to get them on here is to copy andt paste,

², having said that the codes work, ¾ from Aboardman

You could also use a macro such as the one below (the bit between the Sub Makefract() and End Sub lines) to make a fraction out of any pair of numbers. Once you have installed the macro, type in the text like this 123/345 select it and run the macro.

Sub makefract()
'
' makefract Macro
' Macro created 20/07/01 by Duncan Macarthur
'
On Error GoTo notafract

Dim fractionbit As Range
With Selection
forwardslash = InStr(.Text, "/")
Set fractionbit = ActiveDocument.Range _
(Start:=.Start, End:=.Start + forwardslash - 1)
fractionbit.Font.Superscript = True
Set fractionbit = ActiveDocument.Range _
(Start:=.Start + forwardslash, End:=.End)
fractionbit.Font.Subscript = True
End With
Exit Sub

notafract:

MsgBox "The selected text is not a valid fraction"

End Sub



Duncan