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. 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. The macro formats the portion of the selection before the slash as superscript, and the portion after as subscript.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. (Start:=.Start, End:=.Start + iSlashPlace - 1) The following VBA macro will format any fraction all you need to do is select the characters that make up the fraction and then run the macro. If you don't mind making macros, you can create some handy ones that will do the formatting of fractions for you. You can then copy the formatted text to an AutoCorrect entry for future use. By adjusting spacing between the characters, you can achieve a decent-looking fraction.
They either leave the fraction numerator and denominator as regular type, or they superscript the numerator and subscript the denominator. Instead, they turn off the AutoFormat As You Type setting for fractions and instead format three-character fractions all the time. Understanding that the display of fractions is primarily dependent on the font being used, some people choose to not rely on single-character versions of fractions. (How to use AutoCorrect has been discussed in other issues of WordTips.) If you know that the font you are using has additional single-character fractions, then you can create an AutoCorrect entry to do the conversion for you. Further, automatic translation of a limited number of fractions to their single-character counterparts is controlled in Word by an AutoFormat As You Type setting. The upshot of all this is that single-character versions of fractions are dependent on the font you are using. Since these single-character fractions aren't in all fonts, however, Word won't do the conversion automatically. For instance, Times New Roman has characters for several fractions as shown in the following figure: (See Figure 2.) Other fonts may include some other single-character representation of common fractions.
Fractions such as 1/2, 1/4, and 3/4 all have a single-character equivalent in most fonts, so it is "safe" for Word to do the automatic conversion. Most fonts contain a very limited number of fractions as single characters. Why did I say that Word only replaces some fractions? Because that is all Word can do. With this checkbox selected, Word replaces some fractions with a single-character version of the fraction.
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