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Column Widths in Word and Excel
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. Thanks for your help. |
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Column Widths in Word and Excel
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. Thanks for your help. Are you trying to paste from Excel table to Word table? L.O.L.! Why not just paste the Excel table at a paragraph position, then size to suit? -- Garry Free usenet access at http://www.eternal-september.org Classic VB Users Regroup! comp.lang.basic.visual.misc microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion |
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Column Widths in Word and Excel
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. -- 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 Free usenet access at http://www.eternal-september.org Classic VB Users Regroup! comp.lang.basic.visual.misc microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion |
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Am Sat, 6 Jun 2015 14:13:48 -0700 (PDT) schrieb : 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. you have to change to Page Layout. In page layout the inches are displayed. Regards Claus B. -- Vista Ultimate / Windows7 Office 2007 Ultimate / 2010 Professional |
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