Q: Excel won't allow me to input fractions; I keep getting a date. What's happening? A: If you do not apply a fraction format to a cell before you enter a fraction into it, Excel will convert the ...

Fractions are enough to make you cry if you’re not a math whiz, but Microsoft Excel handles them very well. In fourth-grade math, you learned fraction basics: Fractions are a numerical representation ...

Have you tried entering a fraction into your Excel sheet, only to have it convert to a serial, whole, or decimal number when you press Enter, and you have no clue what to do? In Microsoft Excel, you ...