Instead of inserting a column break, select your heading, go to Format |
Paragraph, select the Line and Page Breaks tab, and make sure that "Keep
with next" is checked (if you've used a built-in heading style, it will be).
Do the same for the paragraph following the heading, but also check "Keep
lines together." Continue to do this for subsequent paragraphs until you
have built up a large enough block to force the text into the next column
(because it is too large to fit into the previous column).
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"EasyFormatGuy" wrote in message
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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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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"EasyFormatGuy" wrote in
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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?