Word 2007: How To Change the Measurement Units

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Sometimes other applications can change the measurement units in Word from their default setting. You can change these back to their default (or change them to another setting) by doing the following:


1. Click the Office Button.

2. Click the Word Options button.

3. Select Advanced in the left pane.

4. Scroll down to the Display section.

5. Use the Show measurements in units of dropdown to select from Inches, Centimeters, Millimeters, Points, or Picas.

6. Click OK.

 

31 Comments -


  1. Jean said on October 15, 2008

    Tech-Recipes, thanks for being there. I can understand adding the new features, buy why change the program so drastically. Thus far, it takes more mouse picks than before to do some key tasks and using the right click is more unproductive than before not to mention doing away with some of the Ctrl options makes using 2007 frustrating. It may be prettier and have more icons but it is not practical. I am VERY GOOD with Microsoft Word and do not need all of the little pictures/icons to help me decide what to do and then do it for me.

  2. dainysv said on December 23, 2008

    Thank you! You saved me. Spent about an hour in vain trying to find Tools->Options. Guys from Microsoft were foolish enough not to introduce option: “Use MS Word 2003 buttons and menu layout”. MS Office 2007 is as disgusting as Windows Vista. As a result the transfer from earlier versions of MS Office to Open Office is much easier than to MS Office 2007

  3. hangtt said on April 8, 2009

    thanks a lot.

  4. Anonymous said on August 7, 2009

    Thanx shamanstears that helped me alot :]

  5. Anonymous said on October 10, 2009

    thanx that helped me

  6. Michael said on October 18, 2009

    I was at a seminar this morning for accounting software technology – I asked the seminar leader if he knew how correct my measurement problem – I mentioned I went to Office 2007 site – followed the procedure they suggested going to control panel and make a similar change. He suggested a google search and the first site was this one – followed the instructions and it worked immediately (I need to change from Metric to Inches). Thanks for the assistance

  7. Sarimah said on December 8, 2009

    Thanks for the valuable info. What used to be simple suddenly became a problem.

  8. lia said on December 18, 2009

    thanks.. this is very help me.. :D

  9. Anonymous said on January 26, 2010

    Thanks for the help.

  10. GC said on January 30, 2010

    thanks! was trying to find out the “Tools” menu like in Word2003 for a good half an hour, and even tried Help section which didnt really help!!! i think the changes they made in Word2007 didnt actually benefit the program versatility!!!

  11. Anonymous said on February 2, 2010

    MS WORD 2007 instead of improving and making it more friendly user, has become a nightmare for even conversant in Word users. The worst is, that there is no chance to convert a measurment from inches to metric system. In addtion the increments are so confusing as one inch has been divided in 10 / note metric system used- hehehe/, so could you / familiar with imperial system / tell me how would you set up for instance a margin for 1.9″ ?

  12. Anonymous said on February 2, 2010

    Is anybody out there who would tell me how to change a measurments in MS WORD 2007 from inches to a metric measurement?

  13. Anonymous said on February 2, 2010

    Hi, Did you eventully find out how to change those f…. inches to a metric system. ?

  14. Anonymous said on May 1, 2010

    Thank you very much. I have looked a lot of time to find out how to change measurement units in word 2007

  15. Anonymous said on May 1, 2010

    Thank you very much. I have looked a lot of time to find out how to change measurement units in word 2007. Have a nice weekend.

  16. emad said on May 22, 2010

    Thank you! You saved me. Spent about an hour in vain trying to find Tools->Options. Guys from Microsoft were foolish enough not to introduce option

  17. Mbk said on July 15, 2010

    Fantastic…..

  18. Nhat005 said on September 15, 2010

    thanks!

  19. Guest said on October 25, 2010

    Thanks a lot.. That’s help me much….

  20. Christopher said on November 21, 2010

    What “word options”?!! I keep running across this advice for Word 2007, but there is no such option under the Office Button.

  21. alex said on December 12, 2010

    thank you very much!

  22. Guest said on January 6, 2011

    I am on a mac, and I can not find the office button anywhere. Please help?

  23. Karen said on January 10, 2011

    A quick update – I also found that in the same section (Office>Word Options>Advanced>Display) that checking the “Show Pixels for HTML Display” allows you to format tables in pixels. Handy if you need to align tables to Excel workbooks, since they only display in characters and pixels.That by itself is a little puzzling – integration, anyone? – but if you have a need to make sure the column widths for these two programs are the same, this does it.

  24. John Shek007 said on February 1, 2011

    merci monsieur, vous m’avez sauvé.

    JOhnshEK

  25. AUTT said on February 2, 2011

    this helps me in the urgent time-AUTT

  26. Pattasu said on March 2, 2011

    Thankyou very much Superrrrrrrrrr

  27. Fei Souw said on March 12, 2011

    I already knew that way on Word XP..but on 2007???It’s like I’m searching one by one on the menu..’n I can’t still find it until u show to me.It’s weird..why I can’t see the “Word Options” button?
    Tyvm..I finally figured it out.

  28. Keytonl said on March 15, 2011

    I don’t have the “Word Options” choice under the Microsoft button either. Did you find it?

  29. WMW said on March 15, 2011

    If you click on the Office Button, on the bottom right side there is a button on the right side to exit word and to the left of it is the option button

  30. Nitinpwr02 said on April 8, 2011

    Thanks a lot

  31. Wslakshan said on April 28, 2011

    thank u very much……

 

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