Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!ucla-cs!ucla-se!watson!weiss From: weiss@watson.seas.ucla.edu (Michael Weiss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Word 4.0 don't like centimetres Keywords: macintosh word Message-ID: <2625@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 1 May 91 06:32:06 GMT References: <605@lysator.liu.se> Sender: news@SEAS.UCLA.EDU Distribution: comp.sys.mac.apps Organization: SEASnet, University of California, Los Angeles Lines: 21 In article dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil) writes: >>Why doesn't Word like cm ? Is it quickdraw, or just because the US still uses >>inches? > >this is but there are those who believe that there is a >proprietary measurement system (Microsoftmetres) in place in >anticipation of the day when we a have one world government ruled >by Bill Gates. ;-) It has occurred to me that it may be that MSWD uses points rather than inches or centimeters or whatever. Does that seem perhaps to jibe with what you see? I have noticed the same thing before, except that it was worse. When you change the numbers a little bit, the numbers change a lot on the paper (IOW, it would move a lot farther than you had told it to move the margins). Neat, Huh? -- \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | / - Michael Weiss weiss@watson.seas.ucla.edu | School of Engineering and - - izzydp5@oac.ucla.edu | Applied Science, UCLA - / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | \