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Spencer101 Spencer101 is offline
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Originally Posted by strongcoffee View Post
I am hoping to shorten a very long winded manual entry of fractions by using cut and paste!
I would like to cut and past web based fractions write in the clasic method 1/2 6/4 extra with the next coulum then converting straight away.
Would welcome any help.
many thanks
Adrian
You could create a VLOOKUP table with the fraction in the first column and the decimal representations in the second and use that to convert.

And shouldn't "6/4" be "1 1/2"?