Column break on first page?

[Steve B.]

I want to create a single page document with two columns. I create a new
document and then insert a column break. This immediately creates a second
page and moves the cursor to the top of it. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,
Steve = : ^ )

 

[Clive Huggan]

Hello Steve,

When I create a new blank document, then Format menu => Columns => two
columns, I don't experience this in Word 2004 ­ I just get one page with two
columns. Same with new blank document, then Insert menu => column break.

Is there something in your document that flows over to the second page,
perhaps? If not, could you please describe the steps at your end more
explicitly, and include the version of Word?

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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[Helpful Harry]

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I want to create a single page document with two columns. I create a new
document and then insert a column break. This immediately creates a second
page and moves the cursor to the top of it. What am I doing wrong?

A Column Break is used to move the cursor / following text to the next
column - in the case of a single column page, that "next column" is on
the next page.

To create a two-column document:

- Create a new page or use an existing doucment

- Go to the Format menu and choose Columns

- In the window that appears, choose to have two,
three, etc. columns

- If using an existing document, make sure the pop-up
menu at the bottom of the windows says "Apply to
whole document" (unless you want only the current
section to use columns)

- Click on the OK button

- Ta-dah!! A two column document


You can play with the column widths and the spacing, but it gets messy
trying to make it re-fit the proper page width, so it's often best to
leave those as-is.


Now you can type into the first column. When you reach the bottom the
text automatically flows into the second column, and then when you reah
the bottom again it flows onto the second page (on two column pages of
course). You can force text to the next column before reaching the
bottom by inserting the Column Break you were using before.

Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

 

[Steve B.]

Helpful Harry said:

<BFE6A112.6BAAD%[email protected]>


A Column Break is used to move the cursor / following text to the next
column - in the case of a single column page, that "next column" is on
the next page.

To create a two-column document:

- Create a new page or use an existing doucment

- Go to the Format menu and choose Columns

- In the window that appears, choose to have two,
three, etc. columns

- If using an existing document, make sure the pop-up
menu at the bottom of the windows says "Apply to
whole document" (unless you want only the current
section to use columns)

- Click on the OK button

- Ta-dah!! A two column document


You can play with the column widths and the spacing, but it gets messy
trying to make it re-fit the proper page width, so it's often best to
leave those as-is.


Now you can type into the first column. When you reach the bottom the
text automatically flows into the second column, and then when you reah
the bottom again it flows onto the second page (on two column pages of
course). You can force text to the next column before reaching the
bottom by inserting the Column Break you were using before.

Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

Abandon your hope, Harry, and delight in the certainty that you have
assisted the artless and brought comfort to the clueless.

Thanks (and to my neighbour Clive, too),
Steve = : ^ )