[Gordon Biggar]

Not sure that I understand your post, Rae. The section that I start work in
on the page has no text, but it is formatted for two columns. As I type
text into the columns, Word automatically balances the columns, which I do
not want until the very last page.

Gordon Biggar


"Rae Drysdale" wrote in message
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Text will balance or not depending on whether a final blank line (return)
is
highlighted when seleting two columns.
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Rae Drysdale


"Gordon Biggar" wrote:

There are certain documents for which I keep master layouts (Office
2000).
One of these is of a newsletter format (two columns). Of late, when
typing
text into the leftmost column, for example, the text will fill up
one-half
of the page and then shift to the next column. As I type more text into
the
second column, Word will shift text back over to the first column to
fill up
the (unwanted) space. From days gone by, I remember an option to tell
Word
to make columns of equal length, which one might very well do on the
final
page of a document. But, I'll be darned if I can locate such a command
(e.g. under Format).

I am thankful if one has a solution to my dilemma!

Regards,

Gordon Biggar
Houston, Texas