How do I change unit of measure in one document?

[foxcole]

This has me stymied. I use Word 2003 in which my default unit of measure is
in inches. I received a document created in Word 2007 in which all the
measurements are in pixels (paragraph styles, etc.) and I can't find how to
change that.

All I can find is where to change the default unit of measure on my
installation and on the rulers. But those are in inches as they should be.

What am I overlooking?

 

[Graham Mayor]

See http://www.gmayor.com/Character_Units.htm

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[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Foxcole,

If the setting in Tools=>Options=>General below the 'inches' for
[x] Show pixels for HTML features
isn't turned on but in Format=>Paragraph you're seeing 'px' for space before and space after settings it's possible that the
document has some corruption in it if it's only the one document where you're seeing this.

Have you installed the latest Office 2003 Service Pack and Compatability Pack converter that opens Word 2007 files in Word 2003?

Do you get the same result if you open the document in Office safe mode (hold ctrl key when starting Word then open the problem
document)?

If you use file Save=>As and save as a different name as a .doc file then reopen it, do you still get the same result?

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See http://www.gmayor.com/Character_Units.htm

Thank you, Graham, but that does not answer my question. The ruler units are
just fine when I'm viewing this document, and the default unit of measure is
fine too---both of those are in inches.

What is not fine are the units shown in, for example, the paragraph style
leading and spacing: everything in the document itself (not those in my
normal.dot template) are in pixels, but I need them to be inches. My
normal.dot settings are not overriding the document's pixel units.

The only templates attached to the document are Normal, mulitmac.dot (from
Editorium.com; this is a tool to run multiple macros) and SnagIt Add-in. I
have no problems with other documents using these templates, only with this
third-party document created in Word 2007 from a template in which the
default units are set in pixels.

How do I get this document into inches? Is there some reason my normal.dot
isn't using its own default unit of measure in this document?>>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[foxcole]

See http://www.gmayor.com/Character_Units.htm

Thank you, Graham, but that does not answer my question. The ruler units are
just fine when I'm viewing this document, and the default unit of measure is
fine too---both of those are in inches.

What is not fine are the units shown in, for example, the paragraph style
leading and spacing: everything in the document itself (not those in my
normal.dot template) are in pixels, but I need them to be inches. My
normal.dot settings are not overriding the document's pixel units.

The only templates attached to the document are Normal, mulitmac.dot (from
Editorium.com; this is a tool to run multiple macros) and SnagIt Add-in. I
have no problems with other documents using these templates, only with this
third-party document created in Word 2007 from a template in which the
default units are set in pixels.

How do I get this document into inches? Is there some reason my normal.dot
isn't using its own default unit of measure in this document?

 

[foxcole]

Continuing my search, all I could find in the knowledge base about the px
unit of measure has to do with form fields size units, which might make sense
to create in pixel units, But how could that possibly transport itself into
paragraph styles? Every paragraph in the document has px in its style
settings.

The Reveal Formatting box does show one unit differently. This is a list
style paragraph called List Paragraph. Alignment left is 48 px, but
indentation is shown as Left: 24 px; Hanging: 0.25"; Right: 0 px. I find that
direct-formatted hanging indent very interesting.

But... if I expand the Section tree in Reveal Formatting, the margins are
all shown in inches and the paper is in inches.

I guess I'm not helping my confusion any... well, unless that means feeding
it and making it grow.

 

[foxcole]

If the setting in Tools=>Options=>General below the 'inches' for
[x] Show pixels for HTML features

Man, I disappoint myself!

You've no idea how many times I looked at that dialog, at that inches
setting, but _not once_ did I look at that checkbox. I saw HTML in its
description peripherally, but didn't think anything of it. I would never have
thought the list paragraph was an HTML feature in a standard .doc file.

Thank you! I knew I was overlooking something simple.