When Word documents created on a PC in which automatic formatting is enabled
to create proper frctions, the fractions disappear when the document is
opened in Word on a Mac. Is there a way to regain the numbers from the
original PC file?

I suspect that if you can add the original font to the Mac they will be
there. This question is best asked on a word.mac newsgroup.
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Charles Kenyon

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"B_Moorman" wrote in message
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When Word documents created on a PC in which automatic formatting is
enabled
to create proper frctions, the fractions disappear when the document is
opened in Word on a Mac. Is there a way to regain the numbers from the
original PC file?

The Apple Roman character set doesn't have any fractions 1/4, 1/2, or =
3/4 .=20
So maybe in WordX, there'll be problems, and it'll only show underscores =
instead of the characters, even though the fractions may be available in =
the font. Maybe someone in microsoft.public.mac.office.word knows a =
work-around, as Charles suggested, but if not, you might have to replace =
those fraction characters by fudged-up manually formatted fractions.

Format 1/4 manually once in your document (say, using a superscript 1 =
and a subscript 4).
Then use "Find/Replace":
Use "Find what: ^u188" for 1/4, copy the manually formatted 1/4 to the =
clipboard, and replace with ^c (the clipboard content).
You can then do the same for 1/2 (^u189) and 3/4 (^u190).

Word2004 shouldn't have any problems with the fractions because of its =
Unicode support.

Regards,
Klaus



"Charles Kenyon" wrote:
I suspect that if you can add the original font to the Mac they will be =

there. This question is best asked on a word.mac newsgroup.
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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide
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See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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