In a program like Excel, which is designed to handle numbers, you'd expect to be able to use fractions without any hiccups.

If you can navigate a nested IF function, manage thousands of rows of data, or troubleshoot the dreaded #REF! error in Microsoft Excel, congratulations—you've been ...

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