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by bssrssm 1 view

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An employee opened a powerpoint file that somehow changed the ruler at the top of the page to centimeters instead of inches. We don't know how it changed, or how to change it back, as there are no options or settings we can find to change it. One person suggested changing the windows international settings and ensure they are in US and not anthng that would be metric, as powerpoint (MS Office 97) takes some of it's settings from the OS. We checked this, but it didn't help. Anyone know the soluton to this?

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by moj

As far as I can tell Powerpoint should pick up the information from the Regional Settings in control panel.

Are you checking the regional settings in the NUMBER tab as well, as there is a setting called "Measurement System" which you can switch from metric to US. If not close Powerpoint ammend the above and try goin back in.

Regards.

by bssrssm

I should have said regional settings instead of international. What you described is what we tried, and it didn't work on his machine. That method did seem to work on other machines, and it seems that his machined is now locked out from applyingthis change only in power point. Don't know how opening a file with this setting would lock it out from other files or new ones. This one is a puzzle, because it is only his machine that acts this way.

by maxwell edison

Greetings,

PowerPoint, like the other Office applications, doesn't store a setting for the ruler, it looks to Windows to provide this setting. To change the setting, close all open applications, and:

1 From the Windows Start button, click Settings, then Control Panel

2 Double-click on Regional Settings

3 Click on the tab labelled ?Number?. Towards the bottom of the list is a setting called ?Measurement System?. Set this to US, or Metric, whichever you prefer.

4 When you re-launchPowerPoint, the ruler should obey this setting.

Good luck,

Maxwell

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