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Hi
This is sligtly off topic but what the on earth
does Excel measure cell dimentions in, I am aware the MS unit of mouse distance
is called the mickey (or used to be), LOL.
here goes
On open office I can easily set the cell height /
width to 1cm which i did to produce a tables square for work, however I tried
this at the school using MS office and the cell height seemed to he
12.45 and the width seem to be 8. something,
which is odd as the width is greater than the height. but the actual
properties.
any ideas open office is far easier to use in this
respect, I worked it out by right clicking on the grey bit next the outer
most cell and going for proerties. On expanation would be clicking on the
side changes the width while clicking on the top changes the height, which just
seems totally illogical, when the box comes up with the height or width
there are no units. which is not exactly helpful. I could probably do it
manually but it so easy in openoffice.org. right click column height /
width
For the record.I tried it at home with
excel,and gave up and did it quickly in openoffice.org, apart from Windows
i have not used any office product since installing windows on my new computer,
so I am weaning myself off MS office. This was a while back but now i have
my own user account at the school (see later), I thought I would try it out.
This is NOT an attempt to bash MIcrosoft, more
of an attempt to understand their way of doing things.
Please have sympthy, I now have my own user login
at the school. I can login to the class computer running XP pro on an
AMD 400, with less than 128mb of memory, (shared with graphics i think), the
computer has a whopping 4gb harddisk with less than about 30mb free space,
hence it's like er slooooooow. aaggghhhhh.
I don't use it that much i just logged in for the
first time the other day to check it actually works ok and to try the above
the IT teacher just gave me an account which is there if i need it, this is good
as I can get access to my website and download stuff if needed, or perhaps
we
One nice thing is the interactive smart boards are
really cool if you ever get the chance to have a play with one.
Paul
PS still trying to fix debian, I need to edit my
lilo.conf file so it boots to windows by default until i get debian fixed, (or
rather fix the mess i made of the install), yep we need to blame user
inexperience here. no further comment,
I got vi installed so am currently looking for the
manual that says how to save documents, i can exit ok :q
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