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Change measurement, millimeters to inches in word2003
I have a user running Word2003 on a Win2k PC, with lastest updates.
Her Horizontal ruler looks to be in millimeter she needs it in inchs, but I can't seem to change it. I've gone to: "tools", "Options", the "General" Tab, "Measurement Units" but it shows "inches". Her: "File", "Page Setup", "Paper Size", is Letter 8.5 by 11. I've tried renaming her normal.dot so word will create a new one when Word opened next. That didn't help & she could no longer access her Word macros. I had to put the old Normal.DOT back. I'm beginning to think I might have to make a registry change. Please help. -- Mark_E |
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Change measurement, millimeters to inches in word2003
See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=299339 "You cannot change ruler
measurement unit from character units after upgrade to Office XP" or http://www.gmayor.com/Character_Units.htm . "eidinger2000" wrote: I have a user running Word2003 on a Win2k PC, with lastest updates. Her Horizontal ruler looks to be in millimeter she needs it in inchs, but I can't seem to change it. I've gone to: "tools", "Options", the "General" Tab, "Measurement Units" but it shows "inches". Her: "File", "Page Setup", "Paper Size", is Letter 8.5 by 11. I've tried renaming her normal.dot so word will create a new one when Word opened next. That didn't help & she could no longer access her Word macros. I had to put the old Normal.DOT back. I'm beginning to think I might have to make a registry change. Please help. -- Mark_E |
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Change measurement, millimeters to inches in word2003
I just want to say Thank You. I was having this problem and couldn't figure
out how to change it, even doing what Office was telling me to do. I followed your instructions to go into Visual Basic (which I've never heard of) and it was so simple.. and most importantly it worked! Thank You "garfield-n-odie" wrote: See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=299339 "You cannot change ruler measurement unit from character units after upgrade to Office XP" or http://www.gmayor.com/Character_Units.htm . "eidinger2000" wrote: I have a user running Word2003 on a Win2k PC, with lastest updates. Her Horizontal ruler looks to be in millimeter she needs it in inchs, but I can't seem to change it. I've gone to: "tools", "Options", the "General" Tab, "Measurement Units" but it shows "inches". Her: "File", "Page Setup", "Paper Size", is Letter 8.5 by 11. I've tried renaming her normal.dot so word will create a new one when Word opened next. That didn't help & she could no longer access her Word macros. I had to put the old Normal.DOT back. I'm beginning to think I might have to make a registry change. Please help. -- Mark_E |
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Change measurement, millimeters to inches in word2003
I want to thank you too.
I just uninstalled and reinstalled Office Professional 2003, sure that it would fix my proble. Of course it didn't. I should have checked here first. Thanks again! "garfield-n-odie" wrote: See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=299339 "You cannot change ruler measurement unit from character units after upgrade to Office XP" or http://www.gmayor.com/Character_Units.htm . "eidinger2000" wrote: I have a user running Word2003 on a Win2k PC, with lastest updates. Her Horizontal ruler looks to be in millimeter she needs it in inchs, but I can't seem to change it. I've gone to: "tools", "Options", the "General" Tab, "Measurement Units" but it shows "inches". Her: "File", "Page Setup", "Paper Size", is Letter 8.5 by 11. I've tried renaming her normal.dot so word will create a new one when Word opened next. That didn't help & she could no longer access her Word macros. I had to put the old Normal.DOT back. I'm beginning to think I might have to make a registry change. Please help. -- Mark_E |
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Glad to help, and thanks for the feedback. :-)
Brenda wrote: I want to thank you too. I just uninstalled and reinstalled Office Professional 2003, sure that it would fix my proble. Of course it didn't. I should have checked here first. Thanks again! |
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