Your question becomes more and more confusing, I'm afraid. When you choose
the number of columns, you're choosing it either for the whole document or
for a section or selected text. If you apply column formatting to selected
text, Word will take care of inserting the necessary Continuous section
breaks. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/UsingColumns.htm.
If you are typing in a four-column document and fill the fourth column, Word
will continue in the first column of the next page. Changing the number of
columns won't allow you to get more text on the first page because the
columns will be narrower (in fact, given the space between columns, you'll
probably get less text on a page with more columns).
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site:
http://word.mvps.org
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"Rusher" wrote in message
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Hi BruceM...I've been a Word user for years and before that WordPerfect.
My
question (which I didn't write clearly) wasn't I how to get 4 columns to
begin with - it was how to get more than 4 columns after I've already
created
them. Seemingly, I could only add columns to the front of the piece, when
I
wanted to carry on from where I left off. I didn't expect the article to
continue onto more than 4 columns.
Thank you for your support.
"BruceM" wrote:
Just for the record, I didn't ask the original question. My comment was
about the belittling tone of the reply. I hang around in this group to
see
if I can learn a few new things about Word 2003, but I don't pay close
attention, so maybe there's a history with the OP of which I am unaware.
If
so, maybe that history prompted the put-downs, but on the face of it
they
were gratuitous.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
I have to give Jezebel credit for at least understanding what you were
talking about; I thought you were referring to table columns! But it
would
probably have suffice to point out that the Columns dialog provides
more
options than the Columns button on the Formatting toolbar.
In addition, in some versions of Word, formatting multiple columns
using
the
Columns button doesn't cause Word to check the "Equal column width"
box in
the Columns dialog, and this can cause problems when you change page
size
or
orientation or even result in one column being the full margin width,
with
no room allowed for the other(s), with the result that text just
disappears
at the end of the first column!
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"BruceM" wrote in message
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Was that really necessary?
"Jezebel" wrote in message
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OK, pay attention coz's this is *really tricky*.
1. Display the 'Format Columns' dialog. (Can you manage that one on
your
own?)
2. Look at it for a while, until you see the 'Number of columns'
field.
3. Enter the '6' in that field. (You'll find the 6 on your keyboard
between the 5 and 7 keys.)
"Rusher" wrote in message
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I have a 11x17, landscape page, and I need 6 columns...Apparently,
I'm
only
allowed 4???