[PLUG] mm -> in in OpenOffice.org

[Paul Heinlein]

On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Michael Rasmussen wrote:

> > Has anyone discovered a way to get OpenOffice.org to deal with
> > inches instead of millimeters in, e.g., printer settings? It's so
> > much simpler to visual a margin of 1in rather than 2.54mm :-)
> 
> Perhaps if you convert 1 inch to 25.4mm it would work better? :)

Doh!

> But the solution you seem to be looking for is the menu chain of:
>   Tools -> Options -> Text Documents -> General -> Measurement Unit   
> where you have a choice of centimeter, millimeter, inch, pica or point.
> 
> As soon as you click OK the change is applied.

Excellent! That did the trick. Thanks.

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>