Display a result in fraction form

[Shannon_Bradley]

Hello there smart folks! I am building a base for small film productions, and the industry has some odd practices I have to work around. One of those is tracking scenes on scripts in page length in fractions - specifically 8ths.

For my personal tracking I have a column that just holds the size in the total number of 8ths (so instead of showing 1/8 page it is 1, 1 and 3/8 pages is 11) which I can then total into total number of 8ths.

I now need to convert that back into pages in fraction form to display on one of my reports. So say I have 10 scenes over 5 3/8 pages (so my total is 43). How do I create that 5 3/8 to display?

I hope this makes sense!

[Ron_Daniel · Accepted solution]

With some work, this could probably be reduced to one field/formula. But for expediency's sake, try this:

Whole Numbers formula:

ROUNDDOWN({Number of 8ths}/8, 0)

Remainders formula:

{Number of 8ths}-({Whole Numbers}*8)

Fractions formula:

IF({Whole Numbers}=0,

CONCATENATE(Remainders &"/8"),

IF(Remainders>0,

CONCATENATE({Whole Numbers} & " " & Remainders &"/8"),

{Whole Numbers}

)

)

[Shannon_Bradley]

THANK YOU! Formulas make my brain hurt and I was just staring at this for a while lol. Unless someone teaches us both how to make this smaller I will use it....hooray for hidden fields 😄 

[kuovonne · Accepted solution]

Here is another option ...

CONCATENATE(
  ROUNDDOWN({Eigths}/8, 0),
  IF(
    MOD({Eigths}, 8),
    " " & MOD({Eigths}, 😎 & "/8"
  )
)

[Shannon_Bradley]

What a fantastic community 🙂 Thank you ever so much!!!!

[Shannon_Bradley]

I'm trying this one (ya reduced fields!) but keep getting errors for missing opening parenthesis? 

[Shannon_Bradley]

Circling back to this, wondering if anyone else has a formula suggestion to reduce this to a 2-field setup? Sadly what kuovonne suggested continues to come back with errors for me. Would be nice to reduce my very large table by the 2 extra fields 🙂