This is a quote from Office Excel Help, "Unlike Microsoft Word, Excel does
not provide a horizontal or vertical ruler, and there is no quick way to
measure the width or height of a worksheet in inches." Well, why not? (Just
the fact that it is written so clearly in Excel Help means I am not the only
one to look for it.

Make rulers available in ALL office apps, not just Word. Getting columns
and rows to fit correctly on a page is important. It shouldn't be a chore.
Just make the rulers available so we can see what we are doing without having
to go into and out of page setup and the format funtions. (Clarisworks did a
decade ago.) Office 2003 takes up half a CD-ROM and is chock full of
features I will never use. But Clarisworks V3 is a 10 MB install and still
has more usefull features for the avarage person. The only reason I use
Office 2003 Professional is for compatibility with others. Please stop
bloating it and make it more functional for basic users like me.

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<without having to go into and out of page setup

You don't have to. Choose Page break preview in the View menu. You can go on
entering formulas and values and you can manually drag page breaks.
Of course one can imagine even better ways to do this. But I just wanted to
make sure you know what the present possibilities are already


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Kind regards,

Niek Otten

"MikeLinPA" wrote in message
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This is a quote from Office Excel Help, "Unlike Microsoft Word, Excel does
not provide a horizontal or vertical ruler, and there is no quick way to
measure the width or height of a worksheet in inches." Well, why not?
(Just
the fact that it is written so clearly in Excel Help means I am not the
only
one to look for it.

Make rulers available in ALL office apps, not just Word. Getting columns
and rows to fit correctly on a page is important. It shouldn't be a
chore.
Just make the rulers available so we can see what we are doing without
having
to go into and out of page setup and the format funtions. (Clarisworks
did a
decade ago.) Office 2003 takes up half a CD-ROM and is chock full of
features I will never use. But Clarisworks V3 is a 10 MB install and
still
has more usefull features for the avarage person. The only reason I use
Office 2003 Professional is for compatibility with others. Please stop
bloating it and make it more functional for basic users like me.

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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
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Thank you. I did know about draging the margins, but I did not know I could
still enter data from this view. I was thinking more in terms of optimizing
column widths and row heights. It's not perfect, but it will help.

Thanks again.

"Niek Otten" wrote:

<without having to go into and out of page setup

You don't have to. Choose Page break preview in the View menu. You can go on
entering formulas and values and you can manually drag page breaks.
Of course one can imagine even better ways to do this. But I just wanted to
make sure you know what the present possibilities are already


--
Kind regards,

Niek Otten

"MikeLinPA" wrote in message
...
This is a quote from Office Excel Help, "Unlike Microsoft Word, Excel does
not provide a horizontal or vertical ruler, and there is no quick way to
measure the width or height of a worksheet in inches." Well, why not?
(Just
the fact that it is written so clearly in Excel Help means I am not the
only
one to look for it.

Make rulers available in ALL office apps, not just Word. Getting columns
and rows to fit correctly on a page is important. It shouldn't be a
chore.
Just make the rulers available so we can see what we are doing without
having
to go into and out of page setup and the format funtions. (Clarisworks
did a
decade ago.) Office 2003 takes up half a CD-ROM and is chock full of
features I will never use. But Clarisworks V3 is a 10 MB install and
still
has more usefull features for the avarage person. The only reason I use
Office 2003 Professional is for compatibility with others. Please stop
bloating it and make it more functional for basic users like me.

----------------
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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