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Inches to Centimenters and Back

Set up in inches and want to work in centimeters or the other way round?
Select Tools, Options and choose the General Tab, click the drop-down arrow next to the text box displaying 'Inches' and choose Centimeters. Note there are two other options Picas and Points these are Printer's terms, (72 points = 1 inch in printed size.)

Added by Pete on 26th February 2007

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