[nemanirc]

In Word for Windows, I can type 1/2 and Word will convert it to a single character: �. How do I get Word for Mac to do this? I cannot find anything under Insert -> Symbol or even Mac OS X's Keyboard Viewer (which, BTW, is a lot harder to find than Key Caps was. Why did Apple hide it?).

[nemanirc]

This web site covers how to manually create a fraction:

http://www.fonts.com/fontent/fontent...fyti_fractions

Does anyone know if any of the standard Mac fonts (that come with Panther) have any fraction characters?

Strangely, the � shows up in Safari (I copied it in my original post from Word for Windows), but when I past it into Word for Mac, it turns into an underscore.

[nemanirc]

�stranger still, when I paste the � from Safari into TextEdit, it shows up correctly. When I paste the same thing into Word, it is an underscore. What is going on here?

[wataru]

Try playing with the font in Word. It sounds like it's not mapping it to a font that contains the symbol you want.

If you need to use a lot of math in your documents, I suggest you check out LaTeX. It's very powerful, but if all you need is the occasional fraction then it would certainly be overkill.

[nemanirc]

I started a thread in Apple's forums and found out that TextEdit, Mail, etc. (where I could successfully paste the �) use unicode, while Office v.X uses macroman. Hopefully, Office 2004 will let me use the fractions through unicode.

[kcmac]

I don't want Word to convert 1/2 into a single character like it does now using Unicode. I want to see it displayed like it is shown in this thread. Large.

How do I do this?

I am using 2004 Office.

[cybergoober]

Have you tried enabling/installing Equation Editor in Office?

[cpac]

To turn off/on the conversion of 1/2 (and others) to a single fraction character, check your auto-text preferences in Word.

[kcmac]

cpac,

Thanks for the reply. Could be having one of those days, but where do I find this preference?

I seem to recall having to do something like this with Word X but don't see it in Word 2004.

[kcmac]

cybergoober,

Thanks for the reply. I looked at the Equation Editor. That's not what I want to do. I want to directly type 1/2 etc, directly. The EE makes you go to the Insert menu, select object, select EE, select from menu for symbol, type in numbers in fraction box and then enter.

[MartiNZ]

Originally posted by kcmac:
cpac,

Thanks for the reply. Could be having one of those days, but where do I find this preference?

I seem to recall having to do something like this with Word X but don't see it in Word 2004.

Just going 'undo' immediately after Word has converted to a single character, i.e. after you've pressed space after the denominator, will cancel the behaviour, on a case-by-case basis.

[kcmac]

MartiNZ,

Works! Thanks.