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From: jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (george)
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Subject: Re: Word 4.0 don't like centimetres
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Date: 30 Apr 91 21:23:44 GMT
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:I noticed that when I set a tab as near 1 cm as possible, it became 0,9968
:or something like this. I have noticed this in the Swedish version too.

Word rounds to an integer number of _points_ , in this case 28.

28 pts / 72 ppi * 2.54 cm/in = .9878 cm   (which is what I got in Word btw)

so we americans get messed up too.



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-george            george@mech.seas.upenn.edu