Working with Slides: Change the Unit of Measurement in PowerPoint

Created: Tuesday, March 26, 2019, posted by Geetesh at 2:25 pm

Updated: Monday, October 10, 2022 at 10:24 am

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If you want to change the unit for measurement in PowerPoint, you can choose from inches, centimeters, points, or picas. Users of Windows versions of PowerPoint have choices limited to just inches or centimeters! Changing the measurement unit primarily affects the rulers visible within PowerPoint.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Apple Mac

Change the Unit of Measurement in PowerPoint 2011

Change the Unit of Measurement in PowerPoint

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