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From: Greg Maxey on 3 Nov 2009 06:04 An interesting point came up in a docManagment post. The Paragraph dialog box has an option for setting paragraph spacing before and after. The unit of measurement displayed in this option is points (pt). However, a user may enter other acceptable units of measure (e.g., centimeters (cm)) and Word converts this entry to points. Enter 3 cm click OK, open the dialog again and it displays 85.05 pt. If you convert 3 cm to points programmatically Word returns 85.03937. Close enough of course, but what is the actual true physical space applied and what is that central unit of measurement employed internally in Word? Sub GetPointEquivelent() MsgBox CentimetersToPoints(3) End Sub Is the actual space 85.0397 points and the dialog rounds to and displays 85.05? Or is the actual space determined by some other unit of measure that approximates both 85.05 points and 3 cm? Thanks. -- Greg Maxey See my web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org for an eclectic collection of Word Tips.
From: "Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot on 3 Nov 2009 06:11 Generally speaking, the internal unit used is the twip (equal to one twentieth of a point), so the, presumably accurate, 85.0397 is rounded to 85.05 (85 and one twentieth) points. This rounding, partly at least, explains why some fine adjustments cannot be made, or appear not to 'take'. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "Greg Maxey" <gmaxey(a)mIKEvICTORpAPAsIERRA.oSCARrOMEOgOLF> wrote in message news:uwHruVHXKHA.3696(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > An interesting point came up in a docManagment post. > > The Paragraph dialog box has an option for setting paragraph spacing > before and after. The unit of measurement displayed in this option is > points (pt). However, a user may enter other acceptable units of measure > (e.g., centimeters (cm)) and Word converts this entry to points. Enter 3 > cm click OK, open the dialog again and it displays 85.05 pt. > > If you convert 3 cm to points programmatically Word returns 85.03937. > Close enough of course, but what is the actual true physical space applied > and what is that central unit of measurement employed internally in Word? > > Sub GetPointEquivelent() > MsgBox CentimetersToPoints(3) > End Sub > > Is the actual space 85.0397 points and the dialog rounds to and displays > 85.05? Or is the actual space determined by some other unit of measure > that approximates both 85.05 points and 3 cm? > > Thanks. > > -- > Greg Maxey > > See my web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org > for an eclectic collection of Word Tips. > >
From: Pamelia Caswell via OfficeKB.com on 3 Nov 2009 09:31 Thanks for that explanation, Tony. The page layout > paragraph group of the ribbon shows 85.1 as the conversion for 3 cm, but the paragraph dialog box shows 85.05. Because of your post, I think I know which value MS Office is using. Still, MS should fix that discrepancy. Pam Tony Jollans wrote: >Generally speaking, the internal unit used is the twip (equal to one >twentieth of a point), so the, presumably accurate, 85.0397 is rounded to >85.05 (85 and one twentieth) points. > >This rounding, partly at least, explains why some fine adjustments cannot be >made, or appear not to 'take'. > >> An interesting point came up in a docManagment post. >> >[quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >> >> Thanks. -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/word-pagelayout/200911/1
From: Greg Maxey on 3 Nov 2009 13:53 Tony, Thanks. I appreciate the information -- Greg Maxey See my web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org for an eclectic collection of Word Tips. "Tony Jollans" <My forename at my surname dot com> wrote in message news:eZI$vZHXKHA.504(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Generally speaking, the internal unit used is the twip (equal to one > twentieth of a point), so the, presumably accurate, 85.0397 is rounded to > 85.05 (85 and one twentieth) points. > > This rounding, partly at least, explains why some fine adjustments cannot > be made, or appear not to 'take'. > > -- > Enjoy, > Tony > > www.WordArticles.com > > "Greg Maxey" <gmaxey(a)mIKEvICTORpAPAsIERRA.oSCARrOMEOgOLF> wrote in message > news:uwHruVHXKHA.3696(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> An interesting point came up in a docManagment post. >> >> The Paragraph dialog box has an option for setting paragraph spacing >> before and after. The unit of measurement displayed in this option is >> points (pt). However, a user may enter other acceptable units of measure >> (e.g., centimeters (cm)) and Word converts this entry to points. Enter 3 >> cm click OK, open the dialog again and it displays 85.05 pt. >> >> If you convert 3 cm to points programmatically Word returns 85.03937. >> Close enough of course, but what is the actual true physical space >> applied and what is that central unit of measurement employed internally >> in Word? >> >> Sub GetPointEquivelent() >> MsgBox CentimetersToPoints(3) >> End Sub >> >> Is the actual space 85.0397 points and the dialog rounds to and displays >> 85.05? Or is the actual space determined by some other unit of measure >> that approximates both 85.05 points and 3 cm? >> >> Thanks. >> >> -- >> Greg Maxey >> >> See my web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org >> for an eclectic collection of Word Tips. >> >> >
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