1*cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2*cdf0e10cSrcweir 3*cdf0e10cSrcweir 4*cdf0e10cSrcweir<!--*********************************************************************** 5*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 6*cdf0e10cSrcweir * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 7*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 8*cdf0e10cSrcweir * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 9*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 10*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 11*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 12*cdf0e10cSrcweir * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 13*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 14*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 15*cdf0e10cSrcweir * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 16*cdf0e10cSrcweir * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 17*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 18*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 19*cdf0e10cSrcweir * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 20*cdf0e10cSrcweir * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 21*cdf0e10cSrcweir * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 22*cdf0e10cSrcweir * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 23*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 24*cdf0e10cSrcweir * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 25*cdf0e10cSrcweir * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 26*cdf0e10cSrcweir * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 27*cdf0e10cSrcweir * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 28*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 29*cdf0e10cSrcweir ************************************************************************--> 30*cdf0e10cSrcweir 31*cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 32*cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 33*cdf0e10cSrcweir<topic id="textscalcguidefraction_enterxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 34*cdf0e10cSrcweir<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Entering Fractions </title> 35*cdf0e10cSrcweir<filename>/text/scalc/guide/fraction_enter.xhp</filename> 36*cdf0e10cSrcweir</topic> 37*cdf0e10cSrcweir<history> 38*cdf0e10cSrcweir<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 39*cdf0e10cSrcweir<lastedited date="2005-08-09T12:55:10">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 40*cdf0e10cSrcweir</history> 41*cdf0e10cSrcweir</meta> 42*cdf0e10cSrcweir<body> 43*cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3155411"><bookmark_value>fractions; entering</bookmark_value> 44*cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark_value>numbers; entering fractions </bookmark_value> 45*cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark_value>inserting;fractions</bookmark_value> 46*cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 47*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 48*cdf0e10cSrcweir</variable></paragraph> 49*cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="fractiontext"> 50*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 51*cdf0e10cSrcweir<list type="unordered"> 52*cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 53*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 54*cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 55*cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 56*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 57*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 58*cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 59*cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="relatedtopics"> 60*cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/scalc/guide/text_numbers.xhp#text_numbers"/> 61*cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 62*cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 63*cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 64