Something similar to what you want can be done by
Tools->Options->Spreadsheet->General which has a Metrics field (which I
have set to inches). You can set it to points or picas and if you know
what the font size you're using is in points, you could use that
multiplied by the width you want in characters (of course, you can do
the same thing in inches).
I think the real problem is that many fonts are proportional, so, for
these, there is really no such thing as a uniform character width. This
is compounded by the fact that you can change the font and size in any
cell, so doing anything based on character width would be a big kludge
that would probably get more people mad than happy. I can't imagine how
it works in th M$ products.
Joe
pollyf1944 wrote:
I was curious about the column formatting feature. In Lotus 123 and Excel it
seems that you can format a colum by the number of characters and spaces but in
Calc it seems like it wants an exact figure in inches? how can I transition my
files and my using the columns to format by characters instead of inches?
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