Are they stark raving mad? Power point centimeters? The metric-hostile computer industry is at it again. And I wonder who got the idea that an inch is 2.4 cm. Maybe using rulers with 2.54 cm intervals would make working in the metric system also easier than working with rulers in 1 cm intervals. If they defaulted their program, or at least the metric part of it, to actual centimeters instead of to the inch (pica), there would be no need for 'Power Point' centimeters in the first place. It makes Power Point unsuitable for any measurement sensitive job when using metric, you have to use USC for that. That is their devilish tactic of how to wean metric users off metric into ifp!
Han ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 2002-11-20 18:45 Subject: [USMA:23521] Re: 1 inch = 2.4 cm > In a message dated 11/20/2002 8:41:28 AM Eastern Standard Time, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >I found the following definition of an inch: > > > >1 inch = 2.4 cm > > > > > >http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q189826 > > > > > >From that page came this most interesting paragraph: > > To improve its usability, PowerPoint slightly misdefines the size of a centimeter to make the invisible gridlines fall at convenient points on the ruler. With this conversion, there are 5 picas per centimeter and the gridlines fall at very convenient points on the ruler. So convenient, in fact, that working in the metric system is really easier than working in the English system. The table below shows how much simpler the metric grid is in "PowerPoint centimeters" than in actual centimeters. > >
