Excel Gridlines

[fak119]

I know excel is not a drawing tool.
Nevertheless, I have to draw sometimes simple geometric figures (squares and
rectangles) with measurments.
This is easiest done when the gridlines are square. The closest I got was:
Row hight 4.0, Column width o.42 which looks pretty square but enlarged it
is not...
Any idea which hights and widths produce a real square?

[Kevin B]

Why don't you use the rectangle tool on the Drawing tool bar. When you draw
a rectangle and hold down the shift key as you do it, you get a perfect
square.

You can then at text to the rectangle.

Holding down shift while drawing an oval produces a perfect circle.
--
Kevin Backmann


"fak119" wrote:

> I know excel is not a drawing tool.
> Nevertheless, I have to draw sometimes simple geometric figures (squares and
> rectangles) with measurments.
> This is easiest done when the gridlines are square. The closest I got was:
> Row hight 4.0, Column width o.42 which looks pretty square but enlarged it
> is not...
> Any idea which hights and widths produce a real square?

[fak119]

Thanks, this works fine with single squares and rectangles, but not with a
little more complex "drawings" such as e.g. a floor plan, where the cell
width or row hight might correspond to say, 1o cm or inches.


"Kevin B" wrote:

> Why don't you use the rectangle tool on the Drawing tool bar. When you draw
> a rectangle and hold down the shift key as you do it, you get a perfect
> square.
>
> You can then at text to the rectangle.
>
> Holding down shift while drawing an oval produces a perfect circle.
> --
> Kevin Backmann
>

[Kevin B]

Sounds like you really need Visio, or some other type of charting
application. Visio has templates for floor plans.
--
Kevin Backmann


"fak119" wrote:

> Thanks, this works fine with single squares and rectangles, but not with a
> little more complex "drawings" such as e.g. a floor plan, where the cell
> width or row hight might correspond to say, 1o cm or inches.
>
>
> "Kevin B" wrote:
>
> > Why don't you use the rectangle tool on the Drawing tool bar. When you draw
> > a rectangle and hold down the shift key as you do it, you get a perfect
> > square.
> >
> > You can then at text to the rectangle.
> >
> > Holding down shift while drawing an oval produces a perfect circle.
> > --
> > Kevin Backmann
> >
>