2014-10-22 21:27 GMT+02:00 Vincent A. Juliano <[email protected]>:

> Thank you for the suggestion but the hyphen ‘  Does show and when it is
> removed the mixed fraction reverts to the date type numeration.


Oh, that's strange… The ' use to show in the formula field but not in the
cell itself, but maybe we are talking about two different things here.
Also pre-formatting the cell to text usually works.


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ




>   Brian Barker’s method seems to work very well so I’ll go with that.
> Again thank you very much.
>
>
> On Oct 22, 2014, at 1:52 PM, Johnny Rosenberg <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > 2014-10-22 16:52 GMT+02:00 Vincent A. Juliano <[email protected]>:
> >
> >> I need to set coordinates for a bulkhead and I use the fraction system.
> >> However, when I try to enter the fractions into the table they end up as
> >> dates.  As an example 4-2/3  ends up as
> >> 04/02/03.  What must be done to enter mixed numbers into the table and
> >> have them remain mixed numbers.
> >>
> >>
> > If they only are supposed to show up as text, you can add a ' at the
> > beginning:
> > '4-2/3
> > The ' will not be displayed.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Johnny Rosenberg
> > ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ
> >
> >
> >
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