Divide a page down the centre?

[Graham Mayor]

This sounds like a two column table to me!
Set the table border on the left side of the right column and nowhere else.

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[Itzonlyme]

Hi all, I wonder if anyone's could help with this little matter.

As a help for studying, I would like to create the following.

An A4 document that is separated right down the centre by a straight line
( line could be visible or invisible).

This would continue all the way through the document.

In the left hand column I would enter my study notation/ important points,
questions etc but this column would be designated as only having info
written whilst studying outside the university.

This would give me a series of documents with the left hand column
containing a summary of the text books being studied.

I would then take my laptop to lectures and enter any new info/ teachers
points, etc into the right hand column so that it mirrors chronologically
with the left hand columns contents.

This is one of those things that's so easy to do with paper and pencil BUT
seems more difficult on a computer.

I have tried many times to make the above but as soon as I start entering
text the page becomes unintelligible.

Thanks for reading and I hope this makes sense to the reader.

Regards Alan

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[Itzonlyme]

Hi Graham, As you say it seems like a column BUT there is a problem in
entering text, as the left hand column needs to be filled up and then and
only then can text be entered into the top of the right hand column.

Double click and write, is disabled when columns are used.

I was hoping, perhaps unrealistically, that the two columns could act
independently of one another as in a paper and pencil version.

Its basically the ability to write lots of text all the way through the
document only in the left hand column. The right hand column is completely
empty all the way through the document.

Then at a later date during lectures or in class, new information is added
into the right hand column that is either..... expanding the points raised,
clarifying, adding to or in some way reflects what has been entered earlier
in the left hand column. The left hand column must remain intact during the
entering of the right hand info to maintain coherence.

I go the idea from a lecture series called "How to be a superstar student".
The lecture however did this with paper and pencil, I have now got a laptop
from Santa and am trying do duplicate the method digitally.

Thanks for your reply

Alan

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[Graham Mayor]

No! I said it sounds like a two column *TABLE*.
It still sounds like a two column table.
Use a new row for each new topic.

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[Itzonlyme]

Thanks Graham, You were correct and it works fine.

Thanks again

Alan