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Creating Columns
Hello,
I would like to create a two column document but the column on the left I would like to type in text having Word use its default settings with word wrap but when it gets to the bottom of the page / column I would like to have a hard stop. In the second column or the right side of the page I would like to insert a table with two columns and 40+ rows. Not sure if this can be done or if I am not using columns for the proper purpose. Can someone assist me with what I am looking to do? Thanks in advance! |
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Instead of using columns ,you could use a three-column table with the
leftmost column the width of the text column, and the second and third columns the way you want your table to be. You can Merge all the cells in the left column if you want it to look just like a column of text. (You can also put ruled cell boundaries on the ones to the right if you want it to look like a table.) On Oct 10, 10:30 pm, Randy wrote: Hello, I would like to create a two column document but the column on the left I would like to type in text having Word use its default settings with word wrap but when it gets to the bottom of the page / column I would like to have a hard stop. In the second column or the right side of the page I would like to insert a table with two columns and 40+ rows. Not sure if this can be done or if I am not using columns for the proper purpose. Can someone assist me with what I am looking to do? Thanks in advance! |
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Thanks. That worked too. I do have a follow up question if you can help?
So I created a three-column table, making the left most or first column the width of what I need for text. Now I have used the 'Table Properties' to set a fixed length cell so I can only type in 'x' amount of characters but how do I disable word wrap in a cell? I only want to be able to type in 'X' amount of characters but when I type in 'x' + 1 the text gets wrapped to a second line and I don't want this to happen. I don't think this can be done in Word, but can be done in Excel but I thought I would ask. Thanks again. "grammatim" wrote: Instead of using columns ,you could use a three-column table with the leftmost column the width of the text column, and the second and third columns the way you want your table to be. You can Merge all the cells in the left column if you want it to look just like a column of text. (You can also put ruled cell boundaries on the ones to the right if you want it to look like a table.) On Oct 10, 10:30 pm, Randy wrote: Hello, I would like to create a two column document but the column on the left I would like to type in text having Word use its default settings with word wrap but when it gets to the bottom of the page / column I would like to have a hard stop. In the second column or the right side of the page I would like to insert a table with two columns and 40+ rows. Not sure if this can be done or if I am not using columns for the proper purpose. Can someone assist me with what I am looking to do? Thanks in advance! |
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No, Word doesn't have a way to stop you from typing more into a cell than will
fit. The rest just disappears below the bottom of the cell. But it's still there, and can be recovered if the cell is resized, or if a macro retrieves its contents. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:25:00 -0700, Randy wrote: Thanks. That worked too. I do have a follow up question if you can help? So I created a three-column table, making the left most or first column the width of what I need for text. Now I have used the 'Table Properties' to set a fixed length cell so I can only type in 'x' amount of characters but how do I disable word wrap in a cell? I only want to be able to type in 'X' amount of characters but when I type in 'x' + 1 the text gets wrapped to a second line and I don't want this to happen. I don't think this can be done in Word, but can be done in Excel but I thought I would ask. Thanks again. "grammatim" wrote: Instead of using columns ,you could use a three-column table with the leftmost column the width of the text column, and the second and third columns the way you want your table to be. You can Merge all the cells in the left column if you want it to look just like a column of text. (You can also put ruled cell boundaries on the ones to the right if you want it to look like a table.) On Oct 10, 10:30 pm, Randy wrote: Hello, I would like to create a two column document but the column on the left I would like to type in text having Word use its default settings with word wrap but when it gets to the bottom of the page / column I would like to have a hard stop. In the second column or the right side of the page I would like to insert a table with two columns and 40+ rows. Not sure if this can be done or if I am not using columns for the proper purpose. Can someone assist me with what I am looking to do? Thanks in advance! |
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