fractions in Word 2004

[michael]

Using the Smart Button, I turned off the ability to make typed fractions into
the morer stylish typeset fractions (with superscrip/subscript and kerning).
Now I can't turn it back on. There seems to be no setting for this in
AutoCorrect or AutoFormat (I have everything turned on).

Does anyone know how to get fractions back?

thanks --Michael

 

[matt neuburg]

Using the Smart Button, I turned off the ability to make typed fractions into
the morer stylish typeset fractions (with superscrip/subscript and kerning).
Now I can't turn it back on. There seems to be no setting for this in
AutoCorrect or AutoFormat (I have everything turned on).

I think the MacBU guys must have forgotten to put an interface for this
WinWord option into the dialog. However, even though there is no
interface for it, the option does exist, and you can access it with VBA:

Options.AutoFormatAsYouTypeReplaceFractions = True

or with AppleScript:

tell application "Microsoft Word"
set auto format as you type replace fractions of settings to true
end tell

m.

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

I think the MacBU guys must have forgotten to put an interface for this
WinWord option into the dialog. However, even though there is no
interface for it, the option does exist, and you can access it with VBA:

Options.AutoFormatAsYouTypeReplaceFractions = True

or with AppleScript:

tell application "Microsoft Word"
set auto format as you type replace fractions of settings to true
end tell

That's sure what it looks like. I've been looking all over now too, and only
found these ways to do it. Good solution, Matt. It should be somewhere in
Tools/AutoCorrect/AutoFormat... but isn't.

However, it certainly seems to be a very limited feature in any case. At
least in Times New Roman (is it font-related?) the only fractions which seem
to be able to re-format are: 1/2, 1/4, 3/4. That's it - nothing else. I
think those three used to be on a standard typewriter layout decades ago -
maybe they're in a few fonts too? I once had a Fractions font - actually two
of them - serif and sans serif. They must still be available somewhere. But
it sure seems unusual to have such a Fractions feature and not find it
working also for 1/3, 2/3, 1/5... etc.

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[Andreas Prilop]

However, it certainly seems to be a very limited feature in any case. At
least in Times New Roman (is it font-related?) the only fractions which seem
to be able to re-format are: 1/2, 1/4, 3/4. That's it - nothing else.

Those are the fractions of ISO-8859-1 aka Latin-1.
<http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/iso8859/iso8859-mac.html>
Here you are:

¼ 1/4
½ 1/2
¾ 3/4

 

[JE McGimpsey]

However, it certainly seems to be a very limited feature in any case. At
least in Times New Roman (is it font-related?) the only fractions which seem
to be able to re-format are: 1/2, 1/4, 3/4. That's it - nothing else.

Those are the only fractions included as unicode characters (in the
Latin-1 Supplement unicode block).

 

[incognito]

You wrote on 7/9/04 1:25 AM

Using the Smart Button, I turned off the ability to make typed fractions into
the morer stylish typeset fractions (with superscrip/subscript and kerning).
Now I can't turn it back on. There seems to be no setting for this in
AutoCorrect or AutoFormat (I have everything turned on).

Does anyone know how to get fractions back?

thanks --Michael

Can you tell me what or where the Smart Button is?
Truly yours
Dummy

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Can you tell me what or where the Smart Button is?

They're a new feature in Office 2004.


From Word 2004 Help:

 

[JE McGimpsey]

they were new in Word 2003 etc. on Windows

Using that definition, I suspect they weren't really new there,
either...<g>