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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / September 2007Ensuring units are inches instead of points
In my office, I have several people who setup their MS Word 2003 to show units as inches instead of points, but oftentimes it switched to points. Is there a way, maybe using the AutoOpen macro, to ensure a file opens using inches instead of points? Thanks. Frank If you're referring to the units that appear on the horizontal ruler, see http://www.gmayor.com/Character_Units.htm. If you're referring to measurements in dialogs, certain ones are always converted to points by Word. For example, if you enter a measurement in inches or centimeters (by including the abbreviation 'in' or 'cm' after the number) for the Space Before or Space After in the Format > Paragraph dialog, the next time you open the dialog Word will have converted it to the equivalent number of points. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. >In my office, I have several people who setup their MS Word 2003 to >show units as inches instead of points, but oftentimes it switched to >points. Is there a way, maybe using the AutoOpen macro, to ensure a >file opens using inches instead of points? Thanks. > >Frank We regularly use the Space Before and Space After fields in the Format > Paragraph dialog. I checked out the site you recommended below, and I get the impression that I would need to do this with the VBA every time. Is there any way to stop this, to have it open up in Inches all the time? Could I put the code that is recommended for the immediate window in VBA in an AutoOpen macro? Thanks for your help. Frank >If you're referring to the units that appear on the horizontal ruler, >see http://www.gmayor.com/Character_Units.htm. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >the Format > Paragraph dialog, the next time you open the dialog Word >will have converted it to the equivalent number of points. The Web link code is a one stop correction for a bug that occasionally causes the ruler to read in character units. It should not need to be run each time. The program should always open with the measurement settings configured in tools > options (or Word Options). You can insert any measurement unit in Word's dialog boxes as long as you make it clear which eg If you are using centimeters to measure you could enter 1" in the dialog box to give an inch of space. If this preferred setting does not hold it is uaually an indication od corruption in the Word data key in the registry.  Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> > We regularly use the Space Before and Space After fields in the Format >> Paragraph dialog. I checked out the site you recommended below, and [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >> the Format > Paragraph dialog, the next time you open the dialog Word >> will have converted it to the equivalent number of points. Thanks Graham and Jay for you help. I will pass all of this on at work. Frank >The Web link code is a one stop correction for a bug that occasionally >causes the ruler to read in character units. It should not need to be run [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >If this preferred setting does not hold it is uaually an indication od >corruption in the Word data key in the registry. Dear Phrank, I like to measure everthing in points. It makes everthing seems so much bigger. You do not want a macro that does this sort of nonsense. VIVA LA POINTS!!!!! EggHeadCafe - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com Dear Phrank, I like to measure everthing in points. It makes everthing seems so much bigger. You do not want a macro that does this sort of nonsense. VIVA LA POINTS!!!!! EggHeadCafe - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com |
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