convert fractions

Thank you once again. You are all terrific and try your best to help. That
is so appreciated.

I am going to try your suggestions which, I am sure, will work out fine.

Again, thanks so very much.
--
Terry H.


"Jay Freedman" wrote:

It goes the other way -- to change centimeters to inches, divide by
2.54. For example, if you have 5.08 cm, that's equivalent to 2 inches.

Word will automatically convert measurements that you put into most
dialogs, such as the indents or line spacing in the paragraph dialog,
or the font size in the font dialog. However, if you type a
measurement in ordinary text in a document, the setting in the options
dialog won't do anything for you.

Possibly the easiest way to do conversions is to type them into
Google's search page. For example, type

5 cm to inches

and click the Search button (or hit Enter), and the result shows

5 centimeters = 1.96850394 inches



On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:00:27 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"
wrote:

If you want Word to display distances in inches rather than
centimeters, then change the setting in Office Button Word Options
Advanced Display (fourth batch down), the second dropdown ("Show
measurements in units of").

If you want to change centimeter values to inch values, multiply by
2.54.

On Sep 26, 4:48 pm, Terry wrote:
I am sorry; I guess I am confused. What I wanted was "inches"; I really
don't know how to express myself corectly so, if you cannot answer my
question as I stated it, just forget it; it doesn't matter. OK? Thank you
anyway
--
Terry H.



"Jay Freedman" wrote:
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:16:01 -0700, Terry
wrote:

Thank you so much. It worked fine, just like in the 2003 version. You have
all been so helpful to me.

May I ask another question?

How to I convert centimeters to numbers/fractions? Do you mind?

This question doesn't make sense to me as stated. Centimeters are
almost always stated as a number with a decimal part. What units do
you want the "numbers/fractions" answer to be in? Inches? Points?
Something else?

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
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