1cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2cdf0e10cSrcweir 3cdf0e10cSrcweir 4*ce44d6c1SAndrew Rist<!--*********************************************************** 5cdf0e10cSrcweir * 6*ce44d6c1SAndrew Rist * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7*ce44d6c1SAndrew Rist * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8*ce44d6c1SAndrew Rist * distributed with this work for additional information 9*ce44d6c1SAndrew Rist * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10*ce44d6c1SAndrew Rist * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11*ce44d6c1SAndrew Rist * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12*ce44d6c1SAndrew Rist * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 13*ce44d6c1SAndrew Rist * 14*ce44d6c1SAndrew Rist * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 15*ce44d6c1SAndrew Rist * 16*ce44d6c1SAndrew Rist * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 17*ce44d6c1SAndrew Rist * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 18*ce44d6c1SAndrew Rist * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 19*ce44d6c1SAndrew Rist * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 20*ce44d6c1SAndrew Rist * specific language governing permissions and limitations 21*ce44d6c1SAndrew Rist * under the License. 22*ce44d6c1SAndrew Rist * 23*ce44d6c1SAndrew Rist ***********************************************************--> 24*ce44d6c1SAndrew Rist 25*ce44d6c1SAndrew Rist 26cdf0e10cSrcweir 27cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 28cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 29cdf0e10cSrcweir<topic id="textscalcguidefraction_enterxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 30cdf0e10cSrcweir<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Entering Fractions </title> 31cdf0e10cSrcweir<filename>/text/scalc/guide/fraction_enter.xhp</filename> 32cdf0e10cSrcweir</topic> 33cdf0e10cSrcweir<history> 34cdf0e10cSrcweir<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 35cdf0e10cSrcweir<lastedited date="2005-08-09T12:55:10">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 36cdf0e10cSrcweir</history> 37cdf0e10cSrcweir</meta> 38cdf0e10cSrcweir<body> 39cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3155411"><bookmark_value>fractions; entering</bookmark_value> 40cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark_value>numbers; entering fractions </bookmark_value> 41cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark_value>inserting;fractions</bookmark_value> 42cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 43cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3155411" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="41"><variable id="fraction_enter"><link href="text/scalc/guide/fraction_enter.xhp" name="Entering Fractions ">Entering Fractions </link> 44cdf0e10cSrcweir</variable></paragraph> 45cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="fractiontext"> 46cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153968" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="40">You can enter a fractional number in a cell and use it for calculation:</paragraph> 47cdf0e10cSrcweir<list type="unordered"> 48cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 49cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3155133" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="42">Enter "0 1/5" in a cell (without the quotation marks) and press the input key. In the input line above the spreadsheet you will see the value 0.2, which is used for the calculation.</paragraph> 50cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 51cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 52cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145750" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="43">If you enter "0 1/2" AutoCorrect causes the three characters 1, / and 2 to be replaced by a single character. The same applies to 1/4 and 3/4. This replacement is defined in <emph>Tools - AutoCorrect Options - Options</emph> tab.</paragraph> 53cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145367" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="44">If you want to see multi-digit fractions such as "1/10", you must change the cell format to the multi-digit fraction view. Open the context menu of the cell, and choose <emph>Format cells. </emph>Select "Fraction" from the <emph>Category</emph> field, and then select "-1234 10/81". You can then enter fractions such as 12/31 or 12/32 - the fractions are, however, automatically reduced, so that in the last example you would see 3/8.</paragraph> 54cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 55cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="relatedtopics"> 56cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/scalc/guide/text_numbers.xhp#text_numbers"/> 57cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 58cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 59cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 60