[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

A Continuous break is sufficient for changing the number of columns, though.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Peter A" wrote in message
om...
In article ,
says...
trying to join two files the second file has 2 column format and it
turnes
the first file into 2 column as well


Insert a next page section break at the end of the first file before
inserting the second file.

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Peter Aitken
Author, MS Word for Medical and Technical Writers
www.tech-word.com