[mso] Re: Word 2003 - creating a document with two columns

It sounds as though you're trying to use newspaper columns for something 
that they're not deigned for.  Newspaper columns are there to allow your 
text to flow from column to column on a page and then to go to the next page 
and start again from the left.

There is no correspondence between the left and right columns in a 
two-column page.  You can put a column break in that will take you to the 
top of the next column (on the same page if you're lucky) but there is no 
concept of lines in the left column aligning vertically with lines in the 
right column - and any minor formatting change will throw them out.

You need to use a two-column table.

Each entry should be in a separate row, which will preserve the vertical 
relationship between the items in the columns.

Page overflow will work the way you want it to, and you can put separate 
formatting on the cells in the two columns.  My preference is to define 
styles for table text, and I'd have two - one each for the right and left 
alignments.  However, you can also do the formatting by selecting all the 
cells in a particular column and applying alignment, etc, to the cells as a 
group.

Regards, Dave S
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elise C. Miller" <emiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 12:00 AM
Subject: [mso] Word 2003 - creating a document with two columns


>I am creating a document that needs to have two columns with different
> formatting but I am having a lot of trouble with it.  The reason it
> needs different formatting is the column on the left needs to be
> left-justified and the column on the right needs to be right-justified.
> The text in both columns needs to line up in a certain way - like for
> example, it needs to look kind of like this:
>
> Name (left justified) Date (right
> justified)
> Details (left justified) Place (right
> justified)
>
> I am really confused by how to get some information into one column and
> some information into the other.  What is an easy way to work with
> columns so you don't have text jumping all over the page?  Do you have
> to fill up all of column 1 before you go to column 2, or can you easily
> switch between the two columns as you go?
>
> If I'm not making sense I can email you a copy of the document.
>
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