locale and OpenOffice

[Tony Arnold]

verwertungsprozess wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 because I prefer using
> applications in English language. Nevertheless I want to use
> international standard formats for things like dates and measurements.
> Thus I set LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8 because with this setting Thunderbird
> shows all dates as yyyy-mm-dd instead of mm/dd/yyyy.
> 
> Now I want OpenOffice to use the metric system (i.e. centimeters
> instead of inches). I tried

In Writer, you can right click on the ruler at the top and the side of
the document and select metric units. Does that help?

Regards,
Tony.
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