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This should be easy but I'm missing something somewhere. I am creating a
procedure consisting of two unequal columns. On the left, I type a Step name. In the right column, I type all of the info related to the step. When I finish, I want to type a new step name in the lefthand column below the prior step and more step-related info in the right column. How do I: 1) keep the step name in the lefthand column aligned w/the start of the text in the righthand column? 2) keep right hand text from flowing into the lefthand column when I've filled a page with text? I'm using the column break in the lefthand column but things are still getting screwed up. THANKS TO THOSE WHO CAN HELP! -- K Plank |
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"Columns" in Word pertains to newspaper style columns that snake fro top to
bottom, left to right. For what you want to do that isn't the proper approach. What you need is a 2 column Table where content can be entered into the 2 columns on a row-by-row basis. Although this doesn't appear to have yet been updated for Word 2007 the fundamentals pertain: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/TableBasics.htm If you're using Word 2007 [please always specify] you'll find additional information specific to it along with a good deal more in Word Help on Tables. Go here after reviewing the above: http://office.microsoft.com/client/helppreview.aspx?AssetID=HA100343001033&QueryID=Tp MFWDRk30&respos=12&rt=2&ns=WINWORD&lcid=1033&pid=C H101732061033 -- HTH |:) Bob Jones Office:Mac MVP "K Plank" .(donotspam) wrote in message ... This should be easy but I'm missing something somewhere. I am creating a procedure consisting of two unequal columns. On the left, I type a Step name. In the right column, I type all of the info related to the step. When I finish, I want to type a new step name in the lefthand column below the prior step and more step-related info in the right column. How do I: 1) keep the step name in the lefthand column aligned w/the start of the text in the righthand column? 2) keep right hand text from flowing into the lefthand column when I've filled a page with text? I'm using the column break in the lefthand column but things are still getting screwed up. THANKS TO THOSE WHO CAN HELP! -- K Plank |
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Thanks CyberTaz. It never dawned on me to use a table -- this will help
immensely. By the way, sorry about not specifying which version of Office I'm using. It's 2007. -- K Plank "CyberTaz" wrote: "Columns" in Word pertains to newspaper style columns that snake fro top to bottom, left to right. For what you want to do that isn't the proper approach. What you need is a 2 column Table where content can be entered into the 2 columns on a row-by-row basis. Although this doesn't appear to have yet been updated for Word 2007 the fundamentals pertain: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/TableBasics.htm If you're using Word 2007 [please always specify] you'll find additional information specific to it along with a good deal more in Word Help on Tables. Go here after reviewing the above: http://office.microsoft.com/client/helppreview.aspx?AssetID=HA100343001033&QueryID=Tp MFWDRk30&respos=12&rt=2&ns=WINWORD&lcid=1033&pid=C H101732061033 -- HTH |:) Bob Jones Office:Mac MVP "K Plank" .(donotspam) wrote in message ... This should be easy but I'm missing something somewhere. I am creating a procedure consisting of two unequal columns. On the left, I type a Step name. In the right column, I type all of the info related to the step. When I finish, I want to type a new step name in the lefthand column below the prior step and more step-related info in the right column. How do I: 1) keep the step name in the lefthand column aligned w/the start of the text in the righthand column? 2) keep right hand text from flowing into the lefthand column when I've filled a page with text? I'm using the column break in the lefthand column but things are still getting screwed up. THANKS TO THOSE WHO CAN HELP! -- K Plank |
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No Problem - glad to help... but just keep in mind that the Subject line is
intended & sized to convey an "attention getter" only. All pertinent details should go into the body of the message -- that's why the box is bigger ;-) -- HTH |:) Bob Jones Office:Mac MVP "K Plank" .(donotspam) wrote in message ... Thanks CyberTaz. It never dawned on me to use a table -- this will help immensely. By the way, sorry about not specifying which version of Office I'm using. It's 2007. -- K Plank "CyberTaz" wrote: "Columns" in Word pertains to newspaper style columns that snake fro top to bottom, left to right. For what you want to do that isn't the proper approach. What you need is a 2 column Table where content can be entered into the 2 columns on a row-by-row basis. Although this doesn't appear to have yet been updated for Word 2007 the fundamentals pertain: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/TableBasics.htm If you're using Word 2007 [please always specify] you'll find additional information specific to it along with a good deal more in Word Help on Tables. Go here after reviewing the above: http://office.microsoft.com/client/helppreview.aspx?AssetID=HA100343001033&QueryID=Tp MFWDRk30&respos=12&rt=2&ns=WINWORD&lcid=1033&pid=C H101732061033 -- HTH |:) Bob Jones Office:Mac MVP "K Plank" .(donotspam) wrote in message ... This should be easy but I'm missing something somewhere. I am creating a procedure consisting of two unequal columns. On the left, I type a Step name. In the right column, I type all of the info related to the step. When I finish, I want to type a new step name in the lefthand column below the prior step and more step-related info in the right column. How do I: 1) keep the step name in the lefthand column aligned w/the start of the text in the righthand column? 2) keep right hand text from flowing into the lefthand column when I've filled a page with text? I'm using the column break in the lefthand column but things are still getting screwed up. THANKS TO THOSE WHO CAN HELP! -- K Plank |
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Yeah, Table Basics is one of the "difficult" articles I'm saving for last
(and until our Webmaster can get back into his exploded apartment and retrieve his computer, there's no particular rush). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "CyberTaz" gtz1@comcastdotnet wrote in message ... "Columns" in Word pertains to newspaper style columns that snake fro top to bottom, left to right. For what you want to do that isn't the proper approach. What you need is a 2 column Table where content can be entered into the 2 columns on a row-by-row basis. Although this doesn't appear to have yet been updated for Word 2007 the fundamentals pertain: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/TableBasics.htm If you're using Word 2007 [please always specify] you'll find additional information specific to it along with a good deal more in Word Help on Tables. Go here after reviewing the above: http://office.microsoft.com/client/helppreview.aspx?AssetID=HA100343001033&QueryID=Tp MFWDRk30&respos=12&rt=2&ns=WINWORD&lcid=1033&pid=C H101732061033 -- HTH |:) Bob Jones Office:Mac MVP "K Plank" .(donotspam) wrote in message ... This should be easy but I'm missing something somewhere. I am creating a procedure consisting of two unequal columns. On the left, I type a Step name. In the right column, I type all of the info related to the step. When I finish, I want to type a new step name in the lefthand column below the prior step and more step-related info in the right column. How do I: 1) keep the step name in the lefthand column aligned w/the start of the text in the righthand column? 2) keep right hand text from flowing into the lefthand column when I've filled a page with text? I'm using the column break in the lefthand column but things are still getting screwed up. THANKS TO THOSE WHO CAN HELP! -- K Plank |
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