Dear Jim, Thanks for this information. You probably won't like me saying this but you have given me another arrow to my bow in criticising the use of centimetres instead of millimetres. I really must assemble my arguments favouring millimetres over centimetre more carefully. I will mull some more.
Cheers and thanks for your prompt response. Pat Naughtin Geelong Australia On 2011/05/29, at 04:08 , James R. Frysinger wrote: > Bear with me here, Pat. I'm still trying to find my way around this blasted > "menu ribbon" that MS Office uses now. (The startup guide acknowledged that > many people would find it difficult at first to use the menu ribbon. > Downloadable tutorials are provided for each Office component. Also provided > is a link to a video explaining "Why we made this change" -- the video file > did not run.) > > Opening the Word component, I see an empty page. Selecting the Page Layout > ribbon, I see settings for indents given in centimeters. The Margins tab > provides several options (as well as a chance to customize the settings) and > one of those is "boxed"; I thus assume that this is the current setting: top, > bottom, and both sides = 25.4 cm. One choice is for Office 2003 Default > settings: top and bottom = 25.4 cm, sides = 3.18 cm. > > I will change these to my personal preferences of 2.00 cm all around (or 2.5 > cm on recto pages and 1.5 cm on verso pages to allow for punching or > binding). For those who are up on typography...yes, this provides a line that > is generally considered as being "too long" when 12 point type is used on > U.S. Letter paper. I will try once again, now that I have a new computer not > cluttered with personal stuff, to build a nice LaTeX suite; I miss that from > my Linux days. Sigh. > > When I stumbled across the "preferences" menu yesterday, I saw that the > program was already set up in centimeters (capitalized), but that I had the > option to change that to inches, millimeters, or picas (all capitalized). > > I was able to figure out how to make vertical and horizontal rulers visible > and did so. They obviously are marked in centimeters but with subdivisions > for 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 cm. (Unfortunately, OpenOffice 3.3.0 does the same > thing.) > > Jim > > On 2011-05-27 2246, Pat Naughtin wrote: >> On 2011/05/27, at 11:32 , James R. Frysinger wrote: >> >>> I'm in the process of setting up a new computer for my business and >>> discovered something surprising. While setting options in the subject-named >>> program on this Windows 7 OS, I discovered that "centimeter" is the default >>> value under "Display" for "Show measurements in units of:". >>> >>> That's the first office program I've seen that defaults to metric! I cannot >>> think of anything I set in the Windows 7 preferences that would have caused >>> that. >>> >>> Jim >> >> >> >> Dear Jim, >> >> What are the default settings on your new computer for page margins? >> >> I use the latest (2011) version of Microsoft Word for Mac and it's default >> settings all came in inches. After I set my preferred length setting for >> millimetres, MS Word changed the page margin defaults to 25.4 mm top and >> bottom and 31.8 mm for right and left margins. >> >> You may recall that I have written a short article about this issue >> previously at >> http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/PageBordersInchesORmillimetres.pdf >> >> By the way, does your new MS Word allow you to set your own default in >> millimetres? Or are you stuck with a choice between inches or centimetres? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Pat Naughtin LCAMS >> Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, see >> http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html >> Hear Pat speak at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lshRAPvPZY >> PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, >> Geelong, Australia >> Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 >> >> Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped >> thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric >> system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands >> each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat >> provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and >> professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in >> Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian >> Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the >> UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com for more metrication >> information, contact Pat at [email protected] or to get >> the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: >> http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe. >> >> >> >> > > -- > James R. Frysinger > 632 Stony Point Mountain Road > Doyle, TN 38559-3030 > > (C) 931.212.0267 > (H) 931.657.3107 > (F) 931.657.3108 > Pat Naughtin LCAMS Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, see http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html Hear Pat speak at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lshRAPvPZY PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, Geelong, Australia Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com for more metrication information, contact Pat at [email protected] or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe.
