Monthly Archives: April 2002

Scene 1: You go through your document, fine-tuning its style formatting to the peak of perfection. Then you carefully save your document for posterity. Scene 2: A week later, you open your document. What the . . . ? All of your styles have shifted back to their original formatting. You’ll have to do all […]

Last week’s newsletter explained how to make your own typographical fractions in Microsoft Word. You can read about the technique here: http://www.topica.com/lists/editorium/read/message.html?mid=1709983687 But if your document is full of plain-text fractions, like these– 1/3 2/3 5/8 –why not let a macro do the work? I owe my thanks to Wordmeister Steve Hudson for the idea. […]

Using fractions has always been a challenge in Microsoft Word. A few (1/2, 1/4, and 3/4) have been readily available. But what about 1/3, 2/3, and other common ones? Microsoft recommends creating additional fractions by using equation fields or the Equation Editor. You can learn more about these methods here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q137734 Unfortunately, these methods are […]