DDE / OLE - What is the relationship between a point in Excel and the text height in MicroStation?
For English units, 1 point in Excel equals .01" in MicroStation. Therefore, if using a font size of 10 in Excel, the text will be .1" (when pasting at 1=1 scale).For metric, 1 point equals .25 mm
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