How to prevent rounding when adding fractions

dereklink

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Hello everyone, below is an example of the problem I am having. When I add using the sum formula, Excel keeps giving me a 1 for an answer. Anyone have a better formula for adding fractions to yield a fraction? Thanks!

1/2
+ 3/5
1

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See if this works.

Go to Format Cells
-Fraction
-Up to Two Digits

Result should look like example below.
Excel Workbook
A
11/2
23/5
31 1/10
Sheet
 
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Welcome to the forum

Sticking with Ahoy on this one
 
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Brilliant thanks! I was trying that last night but could not get it to work! It seems to now so I was doing something wrong, thanks!
 
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