On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:10:30 +0200, "Graham Mayor"
wrote:

This is a function of the scanner OCR software and its (in)ability to
produce an accurate representation of the document. Unless things have
improved dramatically in recent versions, Textbridge makes a dog's breakfast
of the formatting and is probably best used to scan to plain text. You can
then format the document yourself more simply than try to deal with what
Textbridge throws at you.

Now solved. The thing is to highlight the two columns by dragging
over each one separately. When I dragged over the two together it
treated then as a single column.

Colin