Thanks, I tried that and nothing seems to change. I tried looking in Help to
find out the purpose of 'Keep with next ' and 'Keep lines together' but there
is no entry. How does their select 'force a column break'? I still get a
black bar where the Column break is located in the first column.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Force a column break by formatting the header and as many subsequent
paragraphs as necessary as "Keep with next" and "Keep lines together." The
workaround for this problem with page breaks is to use "Page break before"
formatting for the heading, but unfortunately there's no "Column break
before" property.
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"EasyFormatGuy" wrote in message
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I have Word 2002. I have set up a simple two column page. At the top of
the
each column is a Header Style (Bold text with background shading black
background with white text) and then plain old Body Text. At the end of
the
body text I end with a paragraph return then insert a column break to
start
at the top of the next column.
I start the next column with the same Header Style and then the next para
is
body text. Simple eh? Except that the column break in the first column is
formatted (attached) to the 2nd columns Header Style thus an unwanted
black
bar appears at the bottom of the first column. The work around seems to
just
keep hitting Enter until the text is forced to the next column instead of
inserting a column break. An awful workaround I agree. Any solutions out
there?