<drawingGridHorizontalSpacing> (Drawing Grid Horizontal Grid Unit Size)

This element specifies the width of horizontal grid units in this document. The drawing grid is a grid which may be used by applications to help position floating objects in the document.

If this element is omitted, then each horizontal grid unit shall be 180 twentieths of a point (0.125") in width.

example:

If the gridlines in this document shall only be displayed for every half an inch, that requirement would be specified using the following WordprocessingML in the document settings: 

<w:drawingGridHorizontalSpacing w:val="720" />

The resulting grid would look like the following:

The <drawingGridHorizontalSpacing> element has its @val attribute equal to 720, therefore every horizontal gridline has a width of one half of an inch (720 twentieths of a point). ]

Parent Elements

<settings> (§2.15.1.78)

Attributes

Description

<val> (Measurement in Twentieths of a Point)

Specifies a positive measurement value, specified in twentieths of a point. This value is interpreted based on the context of the parent XML element.

<w:… w:val="720" />

The @val attribute has a value of 720, specifying that this measurement value is 720 twentieths of a point (0.5"). This value is interpreted by the parent element as needed. ]

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_TwipsMeasure simple type (§2.18.105).

The following XML Schema fragment defines the contents of this element:

<complexType name="CT_TwipsMeasure">
	<attribute name="val" type="ST_TwipsMeasure" use="required"/>
</complexType>