RE: [LUG] EXCEL AND OPEN OFFICE[AV Scanned]

["David Bernard" <David.Bernard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul [mailto:zen14920@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 11 March 2004 18:30
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Subject: [LUG] EXCEL AND OPEN OFFICE[AV Scanned]

 

Hi

 

This is sligtly off topic but what the on earth does Excel measure cell dimentions in,

 

Think you’ll find height is in ‘points’  – the dimensions used for font sizes eg 8 point times New roman has height of 8 points.

 

Width is measured in characters at 8 point.

 

It makes sense if you are using a mechanical typewriter !

 

Ie set the font to courier 8 point, and set the width to 10, then text ‘0123456789’ will fit a cell exactly.

(courier because the characters are fixed width.

 

1cm = 28.3 points.

 

David