Thank you very much for that info. I did not know about the Insert+f+f command, nor have I ever been able to correlate points and inches, so the info you provided will prove to be helpful.
After reading your message I tried out the Insert+f+f command and found out that when you execute it on a set of merged cells, it still tells you only the points for the single cell, and not for the entire height and width. Have you found this to be the case?. Any ideas how to work around this? Annette -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darrin Porter Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 8:50 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Finding out column width in excel Annette, I am an engineer and use Excel daily (office 2003 /JFW 8). Excel measures everything in points (printer's points). In JFW 8, pressing insert-f twice quickly will describe the atributes of the active cell to you in a dialogue box. One of the pieces of information provided is the height and width of the cell in points, e.g., "cell dimentions are 54 points wide by 12 points heigh." The number of characters you can fit in 54 points depends on the font you have selected. All cells in a column must be the same width. That's why there is no way to individually adjust the width of a cell. It is a quirk of Excel that you can enter a column width in number of characters instead of points I guess this makes it easier for some people. But, for the purposes of laying out a page, the only way you will be able to know if everything fits widthwise is to add up the active column widths in points. For a typical portrait layout with 3/4-in. margins, you have a total width of 432 points to work with. For a landscape layout with the same margins, you have a total of 684 points to work with. Hope this clears things up for you. One final note, in earlier versions of JAWS, you only need to press insert-f once to hear the cell's attributes. Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer TECO Ocean Shipping 1300 East 8th Avenue, Suite S-300 Tampa, Florida 33605 (813) 209-4247 (813) 242-4849 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com To post to this group, send email to jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com To post to this group, send email to jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
