---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Orson Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [email protected] Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 08:34:16 -0600
John Hardy wrote:
Hello;
There are many places where a dimension must be set, such as margins, tab stops, indents, line spacing, grid spacing, etc. But OO only provides two decimal places. This is very limiting. A simple dimension of .125" or .375" cannot be specified, ending up as .13" and .38" respectively. Forget about a sixteenth of an inch (.0625"), since it requires four decimal places. The only way to achieve higher precision is to change to millimeters or points, which are much smaller units of measurement to begin with, so two decimal places can describe a much smaller increment. But the user should be able to work in his or her preferred unit of measurement.
I would like to see as many as six decimal places. It can't be all that hard to add this capability. Thank you.
John Hardy
Select the cells that you want to display in higher precision. From the menu, select "Format > Cells..." On the "Numbers" Tab, there is an option for decimal places. Change that to the number of decimal places needed.
Hope that helps, Orson
Format>cells applies to displayed numbers in Calc. What the OP is looking for is to change the _document_ dimensions, probably in Writer (yes, John?).
Ok, now I understand. For example in Writer open format > page. type 8.1234 in the width, then click in the height box. The width changes to 8.12"
I think the reason for this is because 1/100th of an inch is accurate enough for placing text on a page. And I think most printers mechanical feeding systems aren't anywhere close to that accurate. I look at it this way. I don't think I'll really care if 0.125 gets rounded to 0.13, because it is only off by at most 1/200th of an inch. When my measurement is accurate to 1/8th or 1/16th of an inch.
Orson
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