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Flow text side-by-side with linked text boxes - Another way?
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. |
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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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. |
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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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. |
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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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. |
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