AutoStacking Fractions

I was talking with a colleague of mine and he suggested I post this on my blog...so here ya go Josh! :)

Ever tried to get the pop up for AutoStacking of fractions back and couldn't find it? Once you hit the "don't ever show this again", it can be difficult to find. It's also not that easy to find in the Help menu. So I have typed this handy little nugget up.

Auto-Stacking Fractions:
Initially when you first begin to type fractions in ABS2007 OOTB you will get a pop-up message asking if you want to utilize "stacked" fractions and how you would like them to output.

Start your mtext.
Type in "3/4" for example.
Immediately a pop-up will appear called: "AutoStack Properties".
If you click on "Enable Auto Stacking" you will then need to choose how you want them to look by selecting either "convert it to a diagonal fraction" or "convert it to a horizontal fraction".
IF you check the box at the bottom "Don't show this dialog again; always use these settings" and then click "OK" to exit the pop-up you will NEVER see this option again.

This is fine up until you need to change how your fractions are representing.
In order to get this pop-up back you may need to do the following:
Let's say you Unchecked "enable autostacking".
Drop in a piece of mtext and type in "3/4".
Go into the text to edit it, highlight the "3/4", right click, and choose "stack".
While still in the editing text mode highlight the "3/4" again, right click, and choose "stack properties".
The "stack properties" pop-up will appear.
Click on the "autostack" button.
The "Autostack properties" pop-up will appear again.
You can adjust it as desired.
Click "ok", and then click "ok" on the "stack properties" pop-up to exit out of this command.

NOTE: this will not update the text that you had highlighted, it just set it for any future text you will be entering.

If you had "enable autostacking" checked:
Drop in a piece of mtext and type in "3/4".
Go into the text to edit it, highlight the "3/4", right click, and choose "stack properties".
The "stack properties" pop-up will appear.
Click on the "autostack" button.
The "Autostack properties" pop-up will appear again.
You can adjust it as desired.
Click "ok", and then click "ok" on the "stack properties" pop-up to exit out of this command.

NOTE: this will not update the text that you had highlighted, it just set it for any future text you will be entering.

NOTE: If you are just wanting to temporarily flip between the stacked and unstacked fractions:
Drop in a piece of mtext and type in "3/4".
Go into the text to edit it and highlight the "3/4"
On the "text formatting" bar that shows up when editing text, click on the a/b "stack" button, it is next to the color button.