25mm

[Thomas Minser]

Does anyone know how to make a circle or curve in the Word
drawing tools that is exactly 25mm? I keep trying but it's
either 24.99 or 25.36....

 

[Marco]

Not even using Format|Picture from the menu? What are your
locales (US/Metric, decimals, etc.) and your
Tools|Options|General settings?

Marco

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Draw the circle to an approximate size, then use Format AutoShape: Size to
set the exact dimensions.

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[Guest]

that's what I've been doing..... And I'm wrong.... I can
do either 24.99 or 25.01, but not 25

I've used circle and donut.... and I'm using mm for the
measures... and it's still not working

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Word does have a tendency to a certain amount of slippage in those settings,
but since 1/100 of a millimeter is certainly not discernible by the naked
eye, does it really matter?

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Words into Type
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[pre]

Change the measurements to show points. 70.867 points will match 25.003 mm.

 

[Chris Moulder]

While I'm not advocating anything illegal you could find a
UK version of Word since they use metric or you could just
set the Hight and Width to .98 (actually .984...) inches
and then change the border width to get exactly 25mm.