That's an excellent idea, I'll try this.
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In Excel, the unit of column width is the point.
Using VSTO, Excel application object includes a method CentimetersToPoints but not a method PointsToCentimeters.
Would you know a method to convert a width in points to centimeters? Is it strictly proportional, or does it depend of the police or a graphical object?
Thanks by advance
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Take a look at this to see if it helps:
http://support.microsoft.c
jppinto
Thanks for the link jppinto,
So I cannot just convert the width from points to cm because column widths depend on the width of the font defined for the Normal style of the workbook. A column width of 8.43 means that 8.43 of the default font's characters will fit into a cell.
I don't really understand the macro to set a width in centimeters, would you know a way to this in the other side, to get the column width in centimeters?
Thanks for your comments,
@jppinto: Yes, it is this macro, but I just want to get the width of a cell in centimeter, not to set it.
@chris_bottomley: That's an excellent idea, I tried this but the Range.Left property returns a value with same unit as cell width, not in centimeters but depending on default font.
@rorya: I'm working on a project where I export specific values of a worksheet into an ASCII file, and I need the values of cell widths in centimeters to use it in other custom programs.
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by: chris_bottomleyPosted on 2009-10-27 at 01:58:00ID: 25670250
Hello JulienVan,
Why not divide instead i.e.
value in points / centimeterstopoints(1)
Regards,
chris_bottomley