Measure Units in Spreadsheet Documents

• Sep 19, 2023
• 2 minutes to read

You can select a single unit of measurement to specify various distance values of a workbook (such as column width, row height and page margins). To do this, set the Workbook.Unit property.

Unit of Measurement	Description	How to Use
Document	Document (1 document unit is equal to 1/300 of an inch). This is a default measure unit of a workbook.	Set the Unit property to DocumentUnit.Document.
Centimeter	Centimeter (1 inch is equal to 2.54 centimeters)	Set the Unit property to DocumentUnit.Centimeter.
Millimeter	Millimeter (10 millimeters are equal to 1 centimeter)	Set the Unit property to DocumentUnit.Millimeter.
Inch	Inch	Set the Unit property to DocumentUnit.Inch.
Point	Point (1 inch is equal to 72 points)	Set the Unit property to DocumentUnit.Point.
Pixel	Pixel (1 inch is equal to 96 pixels). You can use this unit to set column width.	Use the following properties to set column width in pixels. Worksheet.DefaultColumnWidthInPixels Column.WidthInPixels
Character	Character (the width of the zero character in the font specified by the built-in Normal style). You can use this unit to set column width.	Use the following properties to set column width in characters. Worksheet.DefaultColumnWidthInCharacters CellRange.ColumnWidthInCharacters Column.WidthInCharacters

A workbook’s units of measurement specified by the Unit property are used in the following cases.

• When you specify a column width via the Worksheet.DefaultColumnWidth, CellRange.ColumnWidth or Column.Width property.
• When you specify a row height via the Worksheet.DefaultRowHeight, CellRange.RowHeight or Row.Height property.
• When you specify page margins via the properties of the Margins object.