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Re: [LUG] EXCEL AND OPEN OFFICE



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Pixels ?

Paul wrote:
| Hi
|
| This is sligtly off topic but what the on earth does Excel measure cell
| dimentions in, I am aware the MS unit of mouse distance is called the
| mickey (or used to be), LOL.
| here goes
|
| On open office I can easily set the cell height / width to 1cm which i
| did to produce a tables square for work, however I tried this at the
| school using MS office and the cell height seemed to he
|
| 12.45 and the width seem to be 8.  something, which is odd as the width
| is greater than the height. but the actual properties.
| any ideas open office is far easier to use in this respect,  I worked it
| out by right clicking on the grey bit next the outer most cell and going
| for proerties.  On expanation would be clicking on the side changes the
| width while clicking on the top changes the height, which just seems
| totally illogical,  when the box comes up with the height or width there
| are no units. which is not exactly helpful.  I could probably do it
| manually but it so easy in openoffice.org. right click column height /
width
|
| For the record.I  tried it at home with excel,and gave up and did it
| quickly in openoffice.org,  apart from Windows i have not used any
| office product since installing windows on my new computer, so I am
| weaning myself off MS office.  This was a while back but now i have my
| own user account at the school (see later), I thought I would try it out.
|
| This is NOT an attempt to bash MIcrosoft, more of an attempt to
| understand their way of doing things.
|
| Please have sympthy, I now have my own user login at the school. I  can
| login to the class computer running XP pro on an AMD 400, with less than
| 128mb of memory, (shared with graphics i think), the computer has a
| whopping 4gb harddisk with less than about 30mb free space, hence it's
| like er slooooooow. aaggghhhhh.
|
| I don't use it that much i just logged in for the first time the other
| day to check it actually works ok and to try the above the IT teacher
| just gave me an account which is there if i need it, this is good as I
| can get access to my website and download stuff if needed, or perhaps we
|
| One nice thing is the interactive smart boards are really cool if you
| ever get the chance to have a play with one.
|
| Paul
|
|
| PS still trying to fix debian, I need to edit my lilo.conf file so it
| boots to windows by default until i get debian fixed, (or rather fix the
| mess i made of the install),  yep we need to blame user inexperience
| here. no further comment,
|
| I got vi installed so am currently looking for the manual that says how
| to save documents, i can exit ok :q
|
|

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