Sounds like you're copying tables. Try Table--Show gridlines. Then, you may
want to hit Table--Convert--Table to text.
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"jimi885" wrote in message
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I have Windows XP and Office Professional.
When I work in Word and copy a page or document I get a number of
newspaper
columns formatted automatically into the page.
I cannot find out how to delete the columns. If I select columns in the
standard tool bar and click on one column it does not appear to have any
effect.