


Select the numerator (the part to the left of the slash) and format it as superscript.Many of the formatting settings depend on which font you are using, but you can use the following steps as guidance for how to proceed: One way around this conundrum is to fiddle with the font characteristics of the numbers in your fraction so that the fraction appears as desired. Most fonts, however, don't have such characters for other less-common fractions.

This is because Word replaces those characters with actual single-character font representations of those fractions. The same is true for other common fractions, such as 1/4 and 3/4. You may have noticed that if you type 1/2 in a Word document, the characters are converted automatically to a very nicely formatted fraction.
