I don't have too much of a problem. My standard Windows installation procedure, in addition to deleting desktop clutter and the MSN icon, is to go into Control-Panel|Regional-Options, and check "Numbers|Metric", "Time|24h", and "Date|yyyy-MM-dd". Everything except a few rogue programs then defaults to metric.
With MS Word I can change centimeters to millimeters, and Win2000 I can change "3-1/2 floppy" to "90mm floppy". Nat At 04:14 PM 3 March 2002 +0100, Louis JOURDAN wrote: But why do you persist in using purely American software ? >Yes, the Microsoft products are fine, but non-metric. As I mentioned some >time ago, I use as much as possible a German software, at least as much >efficient as Microsft Word, and fully metric by default, including tabs >(at 20 mm) : RagTime 5. I use WordPerfect, now a product of Corel, a Canadian company. It still comes with colloquial defaults, but it is very easy to change everything to run in millimeters. Except type sizes. Does German software still use points for type size? Jim Elwell
