IBM Lotus Symphony


Conversion of measurement units

In some dialogs, you can enter measurement values into input boxes. If you just enter a numerical value, the default measurement unit is used.

You define the default measurement unit for Lotus® Symphony™ Documents in the dialog that you get by choosing File - Preferences - Symphony - Lotus Symphony Documents - General. For Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets, and Lotus Symphony Presentations, you open a document of that type and then open the appropriate General page as for Lotus Symphony Documents.

In input boxes for length units you can also add the unit abbreviation according to the following list:

Table 1. Explanation of unit abbreviations
Unit abbreviation Explanation
mm Millimeter
cm Centimeter
in or " Inch
pi Pica
pt Point

The following formulas convert the units:

For example, in a text document, open Layout - Properties - Paragraph Properties - Indents & Spacing. To indent the current paragraph by one inch, enter 1 in or 1" into the "Before text" box. To indent the paragraph by 1 cm, enter 1 cm into the input box.

Tip Icon To input the maximum or minimum allowed value respectively, click the current value and then press the Page Up or Page Down key.

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