Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: , , , , , and Word in Office If you are using an earlier version Word or earlier , this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Word, click here: Changing Measurement Units.
Word allows you to modify your work environment extensively. One of the changes you can make involves the default units of measurement used in dialog boxes and on the ruler.
By default, Word uses inches, but you can customize the program so it will use centimeters, picas, points, or millimeters. Figure 1. The Display section of the Advanced options in the Word Options dialog box. WordTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Word training.
Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing software in the world. This tip applies to Microsoft Word , , , , , and Word in Office You can find a version of this tip for the older menu interface of Word here: Changing Measurement Units. With more than 50 non-fiction books and numerous magazine articles to his credit, Allen Wyatt is an internationally recognized author.
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You may want to The formatting in a document is often a mix of styles and explicit formatting, applied over time. The image you show above, I believe, is the installed version of Word, not the online subscription version, which is very limited in functionality. Here is a screen shot of how Word appears on my screen. Choosing Editing view does nothing - it doesn't open or show anything.
Very different from the image you posted. I even tried signing out, deleting the app, reinstalling the app, and signing in again. No ruler and no tabs. To add a screen shot here, you have to save it as a graphics file and then upload it by clicking the Insert image icon on the toolbar in the Reply window. Sorry to say, this is as good as it gets. The ruler and tabs simply have not been built in this version of Word. It is controlled using the slider in the purple box highlight.
The meaning of "Tab stops are preserved" is that if you open a document in which tab stops have been set e. If it has not previously been raised there, make a request for it there and get your colleagues to vote for it. Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community.
The horizontal ruler is displayed below the menu or Ribbon bar and the vertical ruler is displayed on the left side of the Word program window. Click the View tab, then click the Ruler check box to show the horizontal and vertical ruler.
Microsoft Word and use the Ribbon instead of the file menu. Enabling and disabling the rulers is done through either of the following methods. Again, this will not impact the alignment of items in the document. Additionally, if the document was converted using other apps or services, like Google Docs, the alignment may be upset but again the ruler and the units it uses will not be to blame.
You can change the units any time you need to and doing so frequently will not damage the document. The changes you make in Microsoft Word will not change the ruler units used in other apps of the Office productivity suite. If you need to change the ruler units for other apps e.
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