Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss

How to end a column, type a paragraph/title, then start back?

5 views
Skip to first unread message

Debbie

unread,
Feb 24, 2010, 10:34:03 AM2/24/10
to
I am typing a document that has titles for each section, but the section
themselves are in 2 columns. I can't figure out how to make the column "end"
so I can type the new title (lengthy) and then restart. I set the column
back to 1 and that works while typing the title. However, when I restart
columns, it puts my title in the first column (even though there are hard
returns between). Clear as mud? Any suggestions?

Jay Freedman

unread,
Feb 24, 2010, 1:55:55 PM2/24/10
to
You need a continuous section break at each point where you want to change
the number of columns. This is covered in the "Multicolumn sections in
single-column documents" part of
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/UsingColumns.htm.

Although that page was written about a small two-column section in a
document that's mostly one column, the reverse situation works the same way.
That is, after finishing a two-column section, type the next section's title
(still as two columns) plus at least a paragraph mark of the next two-column
section. Then select the title paragraph and change it to one column; Word
will automatically insert section breaks before and after the title to
isolate it from the two-column text.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

0 new messages