Regina Henschel wrote:
Hi Josef,
Josef Latt schrieb:
Hi,
think such a feature request is unnecessary and I cannot
see any
advantage changing this.
If someone want to have this, he can create a standard
template.
Of cause I can set the column width to 2.5cm in the
template and save that. But every new document based on
that template starts with column width 2.27cm.
How do you set the template column width?
Kind regards
Regina
Create a spreadsheet in which all the columns have a
width of 2.5cm. Save it as a template in the template folder
of the user folder. File > Templates > Organize. Open the My
Templates folder, right click the template, and select Set
as default template. Close the dialog.
The next time you open a new spreadsheet, the columns
should be 2.50cm.
--Dan
Regards
Am 03.06.2012 08:12, schrieb Niall Martin:
The problem with that comment is what standard other
countries are
using. The yard was
an imperial unit, based on a bit of metal kept in
London, and until
say Canada and India went
metric, their units were based on that. But in the 80s
it was
discovered that the length of the
bit of metal kept in London, the Imperial yard, had been
drifting down
over time, and the
legislation was based on an estimate of what that length
once had
been. I suppose the USA,
as usual a law unto itself, has done something else, or
ignored the
problem, but if it has, its
measurements will still be based on the Imperial yard.
(I do know that
their volume
measures are different from the Imperial units, but that
is not at
issue here. Though, does
anybody know of another country still using the
pound/foot measurement
system?)
Best wishes
On 2 Jun 2012 at 19:20, NoOp wrote:
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From: NoOp<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Calc] Feature request: Change default cell
width from
2,27cm
to 2,50cm
Date sent: Sat, 02 Jun 2012 19:20:58 -0700
On 06/02/2012 11:54 AM, Niall Martin wrote:
2.54 cm to the inch, it certainly is by law. It
follows from
legislation in the 80s, I think, which defined the UK
yard as 0.9144
metres exactly. If you do your arithmetic that leads
to 2.54 cm to
the inch, exactly.
Well not *exactly* - it depends upon how many decimal
places you'd
care to use, which country (most do abide by SI Units -
BIPM, NIST
ect), and which law& which reference.
<http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/appenB.html>
1 ft = (1200/3937) m
1200/3937 = 0.3048006096
=(1200/3937)/12
= 0.0254000508
And of course there is the infamous '0.02540005'...
For legal and practical purposes, in most cases, 1 inch
= 2.54
centimeters. And yes, I've already responded to Mike
regarding this.
However, please keep in mind that your response is
country centric,
and most likely refers to:
<http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/72/section/1>
But that
"legislation" is (again) country specific and goes back
to my original
comments: You see the problem? You call it tamatoe, I
call it
tomato...
[OT] Btw I pronounce 'River Thames' as th-ames (same as
James) insead
of 'tems/tĕmz/temmz'. I suppose there are several
explainations for
this (none in law that I know of), but I quite like
this one:
<http://www.proto-english.org/l10.html> Any yes, all of
this has been
discussed/debated/departed on the old OOo lists. So my
recommendation
is to let it be.
:-)
Best wishes
On 2 Jun 2012 at 8:07, Mike Scott wrote:
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Subject: Re: [Calc] Feature request: Change default cell
width from 2,27cm to 2,50cm
On 02/06/2012 05:01, NoOp wrote:
On 05/30/2012 03:28 PM, Dwayne Henderson wrote:
Why is the default cell width in OOo 2,27cm?
Actually mine (I suppose you are referring to
_column_ width) is:
0.89" which works out to be:
2.2606 cm (1" = 2.540005cm)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
?? IIRC 1 inch is /exactly/ 2.54cm. I've no idea
where your figure
might come from!
Niall Martin
Phone 0131 4678468
Please reply to: niall<at>rndmartin.cix.co.uk
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