Columns uses section breaks?

[Alex H.]

Using Word 2004. Got a document where I have bullet-lists I made into
columns on a few different pages. Only after finishing my work did I realize
that the page numbers are all screwy, because each time I used columns in
the middle of the page, Word made section breaks before and after them.

I think that's tweaked my footer where the page number is. The page
following the use of columns is always 2 and starts counting up from there.
It looks like I'm using the same footer as the previous section, but the
page numbers are wrong.

I notice there's a "column break" listed under the insert menu. Why doesn't
Word use that to make columns, when I clicked on the column button to do it?

Anyone know how I can fix this?

Thanks!

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Yes, Word requires section breaks to create columns, that's not negotiable.
Column break just acts like a page break, it stops the column right there
and jumps to the top of the next column.
Try this: View | Headers/Footers, click the icon for the hand/# and set the
numbers to continue from the previous section. You may have to use the
"show next" icons on the H/F toolbar to click through all the sections and
make sure they are all set to "continue from previous section."
(For some reason, Format Page Number settings are independent of the "same
as previous" setting for headers/footers.)

Alternatively, you could use a two-column borderless table instead of
columns, if you want to avoid section breaks.
DM

 

[John McGhie]

A column break *is* a section break.

The Page Number is a "property" of the section break.

Whenever you ADD a section break to a document, the one you add is a copy of
the one below it (towards the bottom of the document). The "Master" section
break is at the far end of the document.

In your case, the master section break had its page number set to "Start at
2" instead of "Continue from previous section.

All you need to do is click after each section break and use Format>Page
Number to set "Start At" to "Continue from Previous Section."

Cheers

Using Word 2004. Got a document where I have bullet-lists I made into
columns on a few different pages. Only after finishing my work did I realize
that the page numbers are all screwy, because each time I used columns in
the middle of the page, Word made section breaks before and after them.

I think that's tweaked my footer where the page number is. The page
following the use of columns is always 2 and starts counting up from there.
It looks like I'm using the same footer as the previous section, but the
page numbers are wrong.

I notice there's a "column break" listed under the insert menu. Why doesn't
Word use that to make columns, when I clicked on the column button to do it?

Anyone know how I can fix this?

Thanks!

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[John McGhie]

Ooops... My bad... Daiya is right, I am wrong: A "Column Break" is not a
section break, but a section break is required to create columns...

Having used section breaks to create a two-column page layout, you then
insert a column break to control where Word moves the text to the next
column.

Sorry about that: careless writing on my part.

Using Word 2004. Got a document where I have bullet-lists I made into
columns on a few different pages. Only after finishing my work did I realize
that the page numbers are all screwy, because each time I used columns in
the middle of the page, Word made section breaks before and after them.

I think that's tweaked my footer where the page number is. The page
following the use of columns is always 2 and starts counting up from there.
It looks like I'm using the same footer as the previous section, but the
page numbers are wrong.

I notice there's a "column break" listed under the insert menu. Why doesn't
Word use that to make columns, when I clicked on the column button to do it?

Anyone know how I can fix this?

Thanks!

--

Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410