Rulers to inch

[TriMetric]

How to I change the global measurement setting from cm to inch?

I can find in Word/Excel but not in Access 2010 :banghead:

Matthew

 

[Minty]

It's dependent on your regional settings I believe. Certainly when I use a US database I get inches " and in the UK I get cm.

 

[TriMetric]

It's dependent on your regional settings I believe. Certainly when I use a US database I get inches " and in the UK I get cm.

Fiddled with the region settings Access is still coming up in cm. Including restart pc after change.

Matthew

 

[Minty]

Might be worth changing the dictionary language used in Access - not sure what version you're using.

 

[TriMetric]

Still no luck

Thanks for the suggestions Minty.

Matthew

 

[The_Doc_Man]

I did a web search. This question comes up in Word and PowerPoint as well. In all cases where anyone has answered, the answer is always "Regional Settings."

 

[JHB]

Change the measuring system in the "Regional Settings."
Sorry I can only show it in Danish.

 

[TriMetric]

Change the measuring system in the "Regional Settings."
Sorry I can only show it in Danish.

JHB,

Wow.... that is quite the trip to find but then again with Windows 10 I always seem to go in circles when looking for a setting.

Changing that did the trick, Thank you.

The_Doc_Man,

I'm surprised people couldn't find where to manually change to inch in Word under Options/Advance. As Minty suggested about the regional settings, changing the Region and Language only did not solve the problem in my case.

Matthew

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Matthew,

I used to be surprised that people couldn't find things, but then realized a long time ago that Microsoft can't make money on their training courses if they didn't relocate things now and then. (Changing from Ribbons vs. Menu Bars for recent example.)

I at least have the advantage of remembering that "there used to be this option to change X to ..." a long time ago and so know which questions to ask when searching the web or the online help. Oh, yeah, that's ANOTHER pet peeve - no longer installing local help files with the utilities.

Given the relatively recent (measured in years) changes to ribbons and on-line help only, I'm no longer surprised that folks can't find what they want.

 

[NadiaVKhan]

i had the same problem... you also may need to do this with Dates as well