It saddens me to see so many otherwise intelligent folk who choose to go down the fraction path as they begin their metrication transition. I have an extremely bad example right in front of me on the Microsoft Word screen. I have set the default ruler to metric and the Microsoft Company has, by default, divided the ruler into quarters of centimetres. Even if I set my choice to millimetres, each 10 mm space is divided into quarters of 10 mm or lots of 2.5 mm -- it's quite odd, unnecessarily complex and, I think, will retard the metrication process in the USA by many years.
I had never noticed this before, but I hate Word and rarely use it.
WordPerfect divides the ruler into millimeters, and numbers the scale in either millimeters or centimeters, depending on which has been selected. WordPerfect is now owned by Corel, a Canadian company, but I know it has done the scale like this since long before Corel bought them.
Jim
Electrical Engineer
Industrial manufacturing manager
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
www.qsicorp.com
