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Paul wrote: | 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 | |
- -- Neil Stone
~ .~. SELECT * FROM windows.users WHERE (clue != NULL AND clue > 0); ~ /V\ ~ // \\ 0 row(s) returned. ~ /( )\ ~ ^`~'^
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