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What do the row heights or column widths numbers mean? Is it pixels, mm,
inches? How do I cange them if I need to set the columns to inches? Thanks |
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From the Excel Help file:
Measurement units and rulers in Excel 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. Excel uses characters, points, and pixels as units of measurement. The width of cells is displayed in characters and pixels rather than in inches. When you drag the boundary of a column heading to adjust the width of a column on the worksheet, a ScreenTip displays the width in characters and shows pixels in parentheses. The height of cells is displayed in points and pixels rather than in inches. When you drag the boundary of a row heading to adjust the height of a row on the worksheet, a ScreenTip displays the height in points and shows pixels in parentheses. An approximate conversion of points and pixels to inches is shown in the following table. Points Pixels Inches 18 24 .25 36 48 .5 72 96 1 108 144 1.5 144 192 2 HTH, Elkar "Dig" wrote: What do the row heights or column widths numbers mean? Is it pixels, mm, inches? How do I cange them if I need to set the columns to inches? Thanks |
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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. Ole Erlandson has code for setting row and column dimensions. http://www.erlandsendata.no/english/...vbawssetrowcol Gord Dibben Excel MVP On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:29:02 -0700, Dig wrote: What do the row heights or column widths numbers mean? Is it pixels, mm, inches? How do I cange them if I need to set the columns to inches? Thanks Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP |
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