[mso] Re: Isolate 3-Column Formatting (Word2003)

A lot depends on how you want to separate this page from the rest of the 
document.

At the moment, it sounds as though you are using section breaks to control 
the pages.  This is not very flexible, but is straightforward and robust.

Probably when you delete the preceding pages, you are also deleting the 
section break.  You need to avoid doing that.  If you are not displaying 
breaks and paragraph marks on the screen, then you certainly need to do so.

It is possible that you also need to retain the last paragraph mark in that 
section.  A bit of experimenting will show you.

What you are doing - deleting most of the information, but not all of it - 
is almost certainly the easiest way of keeping control.

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The alternative to all this, would be to define the three-column page as an 
inserted full-page text box with three enclosed text boxes (one per column). 
This could be positioned absolutely at where you want it in the document, 
and the text in the main part of the document would then flow around it. 
The three inner text boxes would be linked so that text would flow from one 
to the other of these.

Regards, Dave S

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Shapp" <ras45@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 12:25 PM
Subject: [mso] Isolate 3-Column Formatting (Word2003)


> To All,
>
> I produce a newsletter every month that is formatted in single column on 
> most
> pages, but one page is in 3-column format. How to isolate that 3-column
> formatting from the pages that precede it? I am using Word2003.
>
> The 3-column page contains a listing of standard info (contacts and 
> schedules)
> that gets very few updates from month to month. The pages that precede and
> follow the 3-column "contacts" page are all very different from month to
> month. Since I use the current month's document as the starting point for 
> each
> succeeding month, I want to delete multiple pages ahead of the "contacts" 
> page
> and insert new text and graphics. Every time I delete preceding pages, the
> formatting for the whole document changes to 3 columns. My work-around is 
> to
> leave one sentence of old material ahead of the "contacts" page, insert 
> the
> new material, then go back and remove the old sentence.
>
> I have tried isolating the 3-column page by preceding it with a hard page
> break or a continuous section break, but those devices don't isolate the
> 3-column formatting. I have no corresponding problem in isolating the 
> 1-column
> pages that follow the 3-column page.
>
> Please tell me a reliable procedure for isolating the 3-column page from 
> the
> rest of the document.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Ray Shapp
>
>
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