Points, Inches, Centimetres, ...

[ChrisGreaves]

Web pages abound, for sure, but I was brought up short this afternoon while upgrading my table-driven styles generator.
Like all good Canadians I measure things in Centimetres rather than Centimetres, and MSWord gives me five options for units.

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Then I noticed that although in Tools, Options I have specified Centimetres, in the Format, Style, Modify, Format, Paragraph boxes my indents (left and right) can be specified as 4 ("4 cm"), while the space Before and After seems always to default to units in Points.

Since my tables allow relative measurements (" +1 " and " *1.3 ") as well as absolute values ( " 2 " ) and by default ( "" ) use of the parent style's characteristic, I am sitting down and giving this some serious thought.

By the time I have resolved the setting in Tools, Options and any historic values brought in by a document that has to be cleaned up, I may well have re-written MSWord ...
Cheers, Chris

[HansV]

I measure things in Centimetres rather than Centimetres

Who doesn't?

[ChrisGreaves]

I measure things in Centimetres rather than Centimetres

Who doesn't?

Me.

I measure things in Centimeters rather than Centimetres, but I types them as ... Oh. Never Mind!!!!
Cheers, Chris