Columns

Columns are only available in word processing documents and frames.  Columns allow you to setup a document to look like a newspaper.  Consider this example:

This example has three columns laid-out across a page.  Text flows from the end of the first column to the next column on the page, then to the next, and so forth.   When text reaches the end of the page, it flows to the first column on the next page. 

To Add Columns to a Document

  1. Select Columns from the Format menu.  A Columns dialog box is displayed.

  2. Enter the number of columns you wish to display on the page.

  3. Click OK.  The columns are added to the document.

To Modify Column Sizes

  1. Hold down the [OPTION] or  key.  
  • Position the cursor over the edge of a column.  The cursor changes to  .  While this cursor is displayed, you can change the distance between the column and the adjacent column.

  • Position the cursor between two columns.  The cursor changes to  .  While this cursor is displayed, you can change the width of a column and the adjacent columns.

Changing the column sizes on one page, changes the sizes for the entire document.


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