I have a section of text that when typed will take up about 3/4 of an A4
page in total. It is easy enough for me to set the number of columns, as in
a newspaper, but I would like the length of the columns to balance
automatically as I type, with the same number of lines in each column.

If I type it as it is, the text disappears off the bottom of one column and
appears at the top of the next, but it doesn't look even as I have a large
area of white space on the right of the page. I know I can use trial and
error to add a break so it appears that they line up, but isn't there a
setting in Word that takes this into account automatically?

Marcus

Insert a continuous section break at the end of the text. That will
cause the columns to balance.

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On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:05:29 GMT, "Marcus Fox"
wrote:

I have a section of text that when typed will take up about 3/4 of an A4
page in total. It is easy enough for me to set the number of columns, as in
a newspaper, but I would like the length of the columns to balance
automatically as I type, with the same number of lines in each column.

If I type it as it is, the text disappears off the bottom of one column and
appears at the top of the next, but it doesn't look even as I have a large
area of white space on the right of the page. I know I can use trial and
error to add a break so it appears that they line up, but isn't there a
setting in Word that takes this into account automatically?

Marcus

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
Insert a continuous section break at the end of the text. That will
cause the columns to balance.

Thank you.

Marcus