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I need more than 4 columns.
I don't appreciate your email. My problem wasn't how to get 4 columns to
begin with, it's after I've created a 4 column newsletter and I want to add more...You're a real ass. "Jezebel" wrote: OK, pay attention coz's this is *really tricky*. 1. Display the 'Format Columns' dialog. (Can you manage that one on your own?) 2. Look at it for a while, until you see the 'Number of columns' field. 3. Enter the '6' in that field. (You'll find the 6 on your keyboard between the 5 and 7 keys.) "Rusher" wrote in message ... I have a 11x17, landscape page, and I need 6 columns...Apparently, I'm only allowed 4??? |
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I need more than 4 columns.
Hi BruceM...I've been a Word user for years and before that WordPerfect. My
question (which I didn't write clearly) wasn't I how to get 4 columns to begin with - it was how to get more than 4 columns after I've already created them. Seemingly, I could only add columns to the front of the piece, when I wanted to carry on from where I left off. I didn't expect the article to continue onto more than 4 columns. Thank you for your support. "BruceM" wrote: Just for the record, I didn't ask the original question. My comment was about the belittling tone of the reply. I hang around in this group to see if I can learn a few new things about Word 2003, but I don't pay close attention, so maybe there's a history with the OP of which I am unaware. If so, maybe that history prompted the put-downs, but on the face of it they were gratuitous. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I have to give Jezebel credit for at least understanding what you were talking about; I thought you were referring to table columns! But it would probably have suffice to point out that the Columns dialog provides more options than the Columns button on the Formatting toolbar. In addition, in some versions of Word, formatting multiple columns using the Columns button doesn't cause Word to check the "Equal column width" box in the Columns dialog, and this can cause problems when you change page size or orientation or even result in one column being the full margin width, with no room allowed for the other(s), with the result that text just disappears at the end of the first column! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "BruceM" wrote in message ... Was that really necessary? "Jezebel" wrote in message ... OK, pay attention coz's this is *really tricky*. 1. Display the 'Format Columns' dialog. (Can you manage that one on your own?) 2. Look at it for a while, until you see the 'Number of columns' field. 3. Enter the '6' in that field. (You'll find the 6 on your keyboard between the 5 and 7 keys.) "Rusher" wrote in message ... I have a 11x17, landscape page, and I need 6 columns...Apparently, I'm only allowed 4??? |
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I need more than 4 columns.
Your question becomes more and more confusing, I'm afraid. When you choose
the number of columns, you're choosing it either for the whole document or for a section or selected text. If you apply column formatting to selected text, Word will take care of inserting the necessary Continuous section breaks. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/UsingColumns.htm. If you are typing in a four-column document and fill the fourth column, Word will continue in the first column of the next page. Changing the number of columns won't allow you to get more text on the first page because the columns will be narrower (in fact, given the space between columns, you'll probably get less text on a page with more columns). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Rusher" wrote in message ... Hi BruceM...I've been a Word user for years and before that WordPerfect. My question (which I didn't write clearly) wasn't I how to get 4 columns to begin with - it was how to get more than 4 columns after I've already created them. Seemingly, I could only add columns to the front of the piece, when I wanted to carry on from where I left off. I didn't expect the article to continue onto more than 4 columns. Thank you for your support. "BruceM" wrote: Just for the record, I didn't ask the original question. My comment was about the belittling tone of the reply. I hang around in this group to see if I can learn a few new things about Word 2003, but I don't pay close attention, so maybe there's a history with the OP of which I am unaware. If so, maybe that history prompted the put-downs, but on the face of it they were gratuitous. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I have to give Jezebel credit for at least understanding what you were talking about; I thought you were referring to table columns! But it would probably have suffice to point out that the Columns dialog provides more options than the Columns button on the Formatting toolbar. In addition, in some versions of Word, formatting multiple columns using the Columns button doesn't cause Word to check the "Equal column width" box in the Columns dialog, and this can cause problems when you change page size or orientation or even result in one column being the full margin width, with no room allowed for the other(s), with the result that text just disappears at the end of the first column! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "BruceM" wrote in message ... Was that really necessary? "Jezebel" wrote in message ... OK, pay attention coz's this is *really tricky*. 1. Display the 'Format Columns' dialog. (Can you manage that one on your own?) 2. Look at it for a while, until you see the 'Number of columns' field. 3. Enter the '6' in that field. (You'll find the 6 on your keyboard between the 5 and 7 keys.) "Rusher" wrote in message ... I have a 11x17, landscape page, and I need 6 columns...Apparently, I'm only allowed 4??? |
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