I use Windows 7 and Microsoft Word 2007. In the upper left corner is a large button with the Windows symbol on it. If I click on it a drop-down menu appears with commands such as New, Open, Save etc. At the bottom is a button marked "Word Options". Clicking "Word Options" brings up a menu called "Change the most popular options in Word." There is a menu to the side. Click on "Advanced" to get a menu called "Advanced options for working with Word." Scroll down. Under "Display" there is an option called "Show measurements in units of" and a menu to the right. Clicking on the down arrow on the menu to the right lets you choose from: Inches, Centimeters, Millimeters, Points, or Picas. Select "millimeters" and "OK" your way back out. Done. Everything is now in millimeters.
To correctly set tabs, select from the top menu "Page Layout" then click the arrow to the right of the sub-menu label "Paragraph". A new menu appears. Click the "Tabs" button on that menu and set tabs to what you want. "OK" out and make that the default. Carleton -----Original Message----- From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of Pierre Abbat Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 16:47 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:47869] Re: superscripts for SI symbols On Thursday 17 June 2010 20:14:25 Michael Payne wrote: > I agree with John Frewen-Lord that Adobe is a nuisance, I print on A4 paper > but the document is all inches. Even my HP printer gives the size of the > paper in inches and decimal inches for the A4 size. All very annoying. I have yet to see a word processor or page layout program that allows me to specify the type size in millimeters. And when I write a program to generate PostScript (usually for graphing something), I have to start every page by changing the scale to millimeters. Pierre -- lo ponse be lo mruli po'o cu ga'ezga roda lo ka dinko
