On Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 3:25:32 PM UTC-5, Claus Busch wrote:
Hi,

Am Sat, 6 Jun 2015 13:06:30 -0700 (PDT) schrieb :

So it appears that Word and Excel use different measurements for
column heights and widths. Word's table cell measurements are
apparently in inches. Are Excel's in pixels? Not sure.

I have Excel tables I need to paste into Word. I want to set my
Excel table heights and widths to match Word's. Is there a way to
do this calculation? I tried converting inches to pixels and that
doesn't seem to work.

in Excel the width is the width in characters.
Try:
Excel options = Advanced = Display and set the ruler units to
inches. You can check the width of the columns in Word and can
modify the width in Excel = Page Layout.


Regards
Claus B.
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Vista Ultimate / Windows7
Office 2007 Ultimate / 2010 Professional

Claus,

I was able to change the ruler unit to inches, but when I right click
and look at Column and Row Heights and Widths, the values haven't
changed. A half inch in Word shows as around 25 or so in Excel.

When I look at Page Layout, the only Width and Height options are for
pages, not columns or rows.

I also tried looking for a site that would convert inches to
characters and found some, but the character numbers are still much
lower than Excel's.

Am I missing something?

FWIW:
I do a lot of instruction manuals that ultimately get output to PDFs
for finishing up as userguides. I don't care much for using Word when
needing to include Excel content because there's nothing Word can do
that can't be done in Excel anyway. Thus, I do all manuals content
processing in Excel mostly to avoid issues such as you're wrestling
with here!.

--
Garry

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