Word 97 newspaper columns like WordPerfect 5.1

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Years ago I used WP 5.1 and you could type your info and then press
(something like) Ctrl+Enter and it would make a new column break. But
when you did this again it would make the next column break at the
longest part of the previous (side by side) columns. E,g,: (example
below has been spaced using monospaced font in Notepad)
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Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Xx


Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Xxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx
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Is there a way to accomplish this (add-on/3rd party) without making
tables? I kinda like the idea of being able to do a keyboard command
like Ctrl-Enter to do this without "drawing" tables in Word.
Ideas anyone?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You could use a combination of columns and Continuous section breaks, but
this is really a situation that cries out for table.