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I've been formatting documents in LibreOffice and am really confused by the inconsistent usage of units in its styles - I refer to the paragraph styles editing dialog.

Often, when I try to edit a style, the units become weird - sometimes, I see inches used as the units, but other times, I see lines used as the units.

Lines as units picture
Inches as units picture

My question:

  • Why does LibreOffice switch between these units?
  • When does it use inches and when does it use lines (or is it a bug)?
  • How can I make sure only one unit is used while I edit a document (because it gets really annoying to see my units suddenly change and the entire document gets messy)?

Thanks!

Kye W Shi
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Go to Tools>Options (Then LibreOffice Writer - General).
Here is Screen-shot for selecting Measurement unit:

screen

Pandya
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  • This is not my problem, though, because it's switching between inches and lines, not centimeters, etc. - and it switches without reason. – Kye W Shi Jun 27 '14 at 18:56
  • @KyeWShi I think for Double Line spacing, it measures in line. – Pandya Jun 28 '14 at 05:34
  • This setting does not affect the paragraph dialog at all, unfortunately. I haven't find any way to use millimeters there! – Binyomin Aug 16 '23 at 21:39