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Excel should have vertical and horizontal rulers.
Excel, like Word should have vertical and horizontal rulers. Cell width and
height should also be able to be measured in inches. I don't understand why this hasn't been already implemented into Excel. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc |
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Excel should have vertical and horizontal rulers.
Excel is not good at things requiring exact measurements because it is
a spreadsheet. That may not fit into everyone's expectations because there are other spreadsheets that are more tightly integrated with a word processor. Excel column widths are based on character width. You may or may not have noticed that almost all fonts have numeric digits with the same width so that numbers line up nicely in columns. So your measurement is the width of the "n" character or a digit (I think they are the same). The font size default is defined in Tools, Options, General default font and font size. If you want exact measurements then Microsoft expects you to use Microsoft Word for printing -- as in printing Address Labels. If you are interested in printing Address labels from MS Word using the Mail Merge feature of Word you might be interested in my page. . Mail Merge, Printing Labels using Mail Merge with data from Excel http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/mailmerg.htm Things like autofit, Shrink to fit, headers and footers, variations in margins and fonts on different printers make it very difficult to get consistent results when printing Excel spreadsheets. This may be one of the reasons that the Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format is popular you can print the same thing on different printers -- though it may look the same it probably would not be good for printing (adhesive/gummed) labels.. --- HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001] My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm "Mgobluefanatic1" wrote in message ... Excel, like Word should have vertical and horizontal rulers. Cell width and height should also be able to be measured in inches. I don't understand why this hasn't been already implemented into Excel. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc |
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