Left to its own devices, Excel will convert your fractions into dates as soon as you enter them in your spreadsheet. See how you can work around this problem. If you don’t apply a fraction format to a ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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