An easy way to get proper fractions on your mac
Is there An easy way to get proper fractions on your mac?
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Other posts suggest specifying one fraction at a time then pasting fraction at a time in after getting it from 'edit'
By doing this:
Open Special Characters from the Edit menu (cmd-ctrl-space).
Type “fraction” in the search field. Besides each of those letters, you’ll see the fraction glyphs.
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Instead, here they all are:
½ ⅓ ⅔ ¼ ¾ ⅕ ⅖ ⅗ ⅘ ⅙ ⅚ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞
Also if you would like to you can add keyboard shortcuts that will automatically change those fractions for you.
Follow the instructions here:
System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Text
-> Little + symbol on the bottom left -> It will create an entry
-> Type 1/2 on the left in the ( Replace ) Column
COPY ½ from the list above.
-> PASTE ½ on the right in the ( With ) column.
Repeat similarly with all the Fractions you would like to use.
then e.g. whenever you type 1/2 it will correct to ½ when you hit the space bar - and so on.
