Microsoft KB Archive/64280

Word: Options “Measure:” Set to P12 or Pt Expands the Ruler

PSS ID Number: Q64280 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

5.00 5.50 6.00

MS-DOS

= SUMMARY =

In Microsoft Word for MS-DOS versions 5.5, 6.0, the ruler will expand, if turned on, to 12 dots per inch if the Utilities Customize Measure box is set to P12 or Pt. This will occur even when the “View Layout” option and the Utilities Customize Preferences “Show Line breaks” option are deselected.

In Word version 5.0, if the Options “measure:” field is set to P12 or Pt and the ruler is turned on, the ruler will expand to 12 dots per inch. This will occur if the Options “show line breaks:” and the Options “show layout:” fields are turned off. The amount the ruler will expand with those options turned on depends on the font size used.

The ruler expands to 12 dots per inch because a 12-pitch, monospace font is 1/12 of an inch. The ruler expands to 12 dots when using points because a monospace font is 6 points wide and, there are 72 points per inch (72/6 = 12).

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