Dave is right that you're probably just deleting the section break and that you should hit Shift + Control + 8 to display then when deleting stuff to ensure they stay in place. And that inserting Textboxes and setting the flow to each might work better. Here's a few articles and video lesson that might help... Word Columns (video lesson) http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=693 Word - Section by Section http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=280 Create a Newsletter in Word http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=216 Dian D. Chapman Technical Consultant, Microsoft MVP MOS Certified Instructor, Editor/TechTrax Ezine Tech Editor for Word & Office 2007 Bibles https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Dian.Chapman Dian's Soldiers' Angels Blankets http://www.mousetrax.com/dian/angels.html http://www.uswardogs.org/ Free Computer Tutorials: http://www.techtrax.us Free Word Tricks eBook: http://www.mousetrax.com/books.html Learn VBA the easy way: http://www.mousetrax.com/techcourses.html -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ray Shapp Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 11:49 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: Isolate 3-Column Formatting (Word2003) Hi Dave, Thanks for the reply. <<What you are doing - deleting most of the information, but not all of it - is almost certainly the easiest way of keeping control.>> I adopted this technique as a "work-around". It is effective, but I thought I might have been misusing the section break between the ne-column pages and the three-column page. The three linked text boxes is a viable alternative. Thanks for mentioning that. Ray Shapp ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu at the top. This will allow you to unsubscribe your email address or change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to share files with the group, you must join our Yahoo sister group. This group will not allow for posting of emails, but will allow you to join and share problem files, templates, etc.: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MicrosoftOffice . This group is for FILE SHARING ONLY. If you are using Outlook and you see a lot of unnecessary code in your email messages, read these instructions that explain why and how to fix it: http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc3/v28/greg28.htm ************************************************************* ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu at the top. This will allow you to unsubscribe your email address or change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to share files with the group, you must join our Yahoo sister group. This group will not allow for posting of emails, but will allow you to join and share problem files, templates, etc.: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MicrosoftOffice . This group is for FILE SHARING ONLY. If you are using Outlook and you see a lot of unnecessary code in your email messages, read these instructions that explain why and how to fix it: http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc3/v28/greg28.htm *************************************************************