Changing Units of Measure in OpenOffice [inches to cm]
Written By: stephanie on August 8, 2009
2 Comments
Living in a metric society, it is much more convenient to have OpenOffice talking to me in metric measurements, rather than in empirical measurements.
So I had fiddled with locals and other such measurements, however this did not seem to change the values presented when I clicked on Format –> Page.
To do this, I followed the steps below:
- Open OpenOffice Writer
- Click on Tools –> Options
- Click on the + sign next to OpenOffice.org Writer (expanding the menu)
- Click on General
- Change the measurement unit from inches to cm
- Click on OK
- Restart OpenOffice
I found that changing the measurement setting in OpenOffice Writer also updated the measurement setting in Calc as well. If you find out that this is not the case, please advise in the comments.
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Hi there
as an aside, “Living in a metric society, it is much more convenient to have OpenOffice talking to me in metric measurements, rather than in empirical measurements.” – this should say “imperial” not “empirical”. Maybe spell-checker did that?
But my reason for emailing: I have an old link that no longer works:
http://openoffice.ozlady.com/2007/10/15/mail-merge-without-the-address-block/
Your solution is BRILLIANT and makes the official OOO method look really silly. Please bring the page back online when you get a chance, for the benefit of other OOO users. I have a (broken) link to it on one of my webpages at http://tonywhelan.net/opensource.html
cheers
Tony
Canberra
Tony – Looking into it and will get it up ASAP!