It may not be suggested at least in part because Word's designers didn't
anticipate this type of application. But I would imagine that the Help
writers would have been chary of encouraging users to create long, possibly
single-row tables, which at worst can become corrupted and at best make the
document sluggish to work with.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Ronnoco" wrote in message
...
Suzanne, this was great. I completed in about 5 minutes what I thought
was
going to take over a very frustrating hour. I wonder why this isn't
suggested in the Word help area? My project for my church turned out
great.

Thank you for your help.
--
Ronnoco


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

You'll find this intensely frustrating with text boxes. Instead, use a
two-column borderless table. Break the table into rows from time to time
to
avoid the problems of long, single-row tables.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Ronnoco" wrote in message
...
I have a 15 page document that I need to put in a column on the left
with
continuing columns on each additional page. I have an updated
document
that
I need to put on the right side column. I'm figuring I'll need about
30
pages to copy and paste the old documents into the columns. I tried
to
use
the "flow text side-by-side with linked text boxes" directions,
however,
it
is difficult to get the text boxes the same width on each page and I
wasn't
successful in trying to copy the text boxes.

Can someone give me a simpler way to do this?

Thank you.