I am using two newspaper columns in my Word 2000 document. On the last
page, for some reason column two insists on beginning way before column
one has filled up with text, before the bottom margin has been reached
by the text of column one. It's almost as if Word is trying to balance
out the two columns in length, trying to make them the same size on the
vertical page. I just can't pull the first paragraph of column two down
to the bottom of column one where it belongs (and where it can easily
fit!)

Any ideas? Thanks much.

Word doesn't balance columns unless they are followed by a Continuous
section break, and you can override even this in Tools | Options |
Compatibility.

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"Rick Charnes" wrote in message
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I am using two newspaper columns in my Word 2000 document. On the last
page, for some reason column two insists on beginning way before column
one has filled up with text, before the bottom margin has been reached
by the text of column one. It's almost as if Word is trying to balance
out the two columns in length, trying to make them the same size on the
vertical page. I just can't pull the first paragraph of column two down
to the bottom of column one where it belongs (and where it can easily
fit!)

Any ideas? Thanks much.

You can clear the options for "Widow/Orphan control" and "Keep lines
together" for the current selection, on the Line and Page Breaks tab
of FormatParagraph, if you haven't already. Does this give you the
desired result?

Note that if you are familiar with paragraph styles, you can make the
above changes in the style definition(s).

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Stefan Blom


"Rick Charnes" wrote in message
om...
I am using two newspaper columns in my Word 2000 document. On the
last
page, for some reason column two insists on beginning way before
column
one has filled up with text, before the bottom margin has been
reached
by the text of column one. It's almost as if Word is trying to
balance
out the two columns in length, trying to make them the same size on
the
vertical page. I just can't pull the first paragraph of column two
down
to the bottom of column one where it belongs (and where it can
easily
fit!)

Any ideas? Thanks much.