columns in large doc

[vimack]

How do you end a column in the middle of a page without
the following text starting at the top of the next page?
Can't seem to turn the column off.

 

[Bob Sullivan]

-----Original Message-----
How do you end a column in the middle of a page without
the following text starting at the top of the next page?
Can't seem to turn the column off.
.

I'm guessing that you have balanced columns on the paper,
and that you want to go back to a no-column format in the
middle of a page. If so...

Insert a continuous section break where you want the
columns to end. Insert>>Break>>Continuous.

Bob Sullivan

 

[Vivian McPherson]

Thanks, Bob, but it didn't work. It's times like this
that I wish fervently that Word Perfect had been the WP
choice of the Fed Gov.
Vivian

 

[Phil]

Sometimes Word 2000 "overrules" your request for a continuous section
break and puts a next-page section break anyway.

The solution is to (after you add the section break) put the cursor
someplace in the new section, then go FILE -> Page Setup..., click the
"Layout" tab, then, at the top left of the dialog box where it says
"Section Start", make sure "Continuous" is selected, not "New Page".
Select Continuous.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You won't, however, be able to do that if you have footnotes in a
multi-column section (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/FtnoteSpanColumns.htm) or of course if
you are changing page size or orientation (or margins or anything else that
requires a Next Page break).