Table and Column Conflict

[Chris Fearon]

I am trying to solve a mystery as to why I cannot insert
a small three column, 6 row table along side of six lines
of short phrases (each about half an available line
long). I have tried to designate the area into two
newspaper columns and insert a 6 row table (for check
boxes) to correspond with the script. However only two
rows shows up in the right column and the rest of the
rows spill over under the original script, elongating the
space to the next paragraph, even though there appears to
be plenty of vertical room on the right hand side.
Certainly there has to be a fairly simple way to
accomplish what I am trying to do. Any ideas???
Thanks!!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

There is a way to do what you want to do the way you're trying to do it, but
there's a much simpler way as well. If I correctly understand your
description, you want the rows of the table to be parallel to the text in
the left column. So put it in the table! The reason many users don't think
of using a table this way is that Word by default applies borders to tables,
and you presumably don't want a border around your text, but you don't have
to have borders; you can remove them entirely or selectively, using the
Borders toolbar button or the Format | Borders and Shading dialog. If you
make a wide first column for your short phrases, then the alignment will be
taken care of automatically, and you won't have to fight with balancing the
columns.

If you insist on doing it the other way, make sure you have a Continuous
section break at the end of the two-column section and that "Don't balance
columns for Continuous section starts" is *not* checked on the Compatibility
tab of Tools | Options. If this doesn't solve the problem, format every row
of the table except the last as "Keep with next" (Format | Paragraph | Line
and Page Breaks).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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