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Thank you! That helped!

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Row heights are measured in points or pixels. There are 72 points to an inch
and "maybe" 96 pixels to the inch.

The number that appears in the Standard column width box is the average number
of digits 0-9 of the standard font that fit in a cell.

For an interesting and enlightening discussion on this subject see

http://snipurl.com/dzz8

If you want to use VBA to set height and width in mm which you can convert to
inches.

Ole Erlandson has code for setting row and column dimensions.

http://www.erlandsendata.no/english/...vbawssetrowcol


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 10:00:00 -0800, HomeworkHelpNeeded!
wrote:

I'm trying to make the cells on a spreadsheet be 4.5" long by 2.5" tall. I
can't seem to figure out how to make it be a measurement vs
pixels/characters. Can anyone help me with this?