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Tab bar in Word display in Inches

For a long time I had the Tab bar ( The ruler across the top of the page ) showing measurements in Points, which truthfully meant nothing to me. I am old and I work and think in inches and miles.

After much fiddling I found the simple answer.

Would you believe it is in Tools > Options > General

At the bottom there is a little box labelled Measurement units, and a pull down arrow.

I cannot explain how foolish I felt after struggling for years now I knew the width of the margins and the width of the Text.

Now for the really clever bit.

If you hold down Alt and click your cursor on the Tab bar it displays exactly the distance in decimals of an inch

Try it This could be useful when you want to put additional tabs on your Tab bar for locating monetary sums etc. 