from cm to inch (Pages)

System Preferences - Language and Region - Advanced:

Change the measurement units to US.

Hey presto...

(This is on a UK Mac which normally displays cm/mm and which is hurriedly being set back that way after this little adventure into the past.)

Please tell me where you found it in the preferences setting. I don't see any option to change from metric to inches?

Thanks

Actually I know where it's at in preferences menu...but when I select the"file- page setup" the paper size selections are still metric? Perhaps there's no option to change it and we're stuck with the setting because of the country we live in is metric?

If you live in a country whose measurement standard is metric, then your System Preferences > Language & Region settings will be used by Pages for Paper Size reporting. That should not matter as the English language name for the paper size is also present.

The Pages application (e.g. v10.3.9) is limited to three measurements: 1) Inches, 2) Centimeters, and 3) Points — all selectable via its Preferences > Rulers panel. Though Pages won't help you with measurement conversions. there are web references that provide this information for mainstream paper sizes.

Thanks for your reply...sounds like you're confirming what I stated as part of my question. I was simply hoping for the "freedom" to choose whatever measurement I wanted regardless of where I live or work or play or visit etc etc.

Bit of a rant here.

I realize this is not a big issue but just one more of many issues and many people including myself feel Apple is heading in the wrong direction in many ways. It's a real love / hate product relationship I have with Apple and there are times when I consider going back to a PC because over the years Apple has continued to limit the options allowed with their computers, apps etc.

My next phone will not be from Apple and I just bought an expensive imac desktop which will probably be my last apple computer. I could have bought a much faster/more powerful PC desktop for less than half the price of the imac. This time I choose Apple over PC but due for a laptop in the coming months and it will probably will be a PC.. Which is too bad because I've been apple user for 25 years because they have a superior machine but the cost is getting way out of hand along with everything listed above...which again is driving more and more people away...including me.

Sorry about the rant...cheers

Ty

Well it turns out this was my fault because it was actually a "system" setting and not a setting within the pages program. I switched it to USA instead of Canada and problem solved!

Thanks to everyone for taking the time to post.

Cheers!

P.S.

I still stick by my rant about apple products above.