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How have 2 columns without using second column?
I am on XP Pro/SP2 with Office Pro 2003.
---- In Word I want to have two columns: (1) I want the text of what was said at a meeting in the left (larger) column. (2) I want to put the odd comment in the right column. Can I do this in Word? |
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How have 2 columns without using second column?
One option - Try using a 2-Column *Table* rather than newspaper-type Column
layout. -- HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "Andy" wrote in message ... I am on XP Pro/SP2 with Office Pro 2003. ---- In Word I want to have two columns: (1) I want the text of what was said at a meeting in the left (larger) column. (2) I want to put the odd comment in the right column. Can I do this in Word? |
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How have 2 columns without using second column?
"Andy" wrote in message
I am on XP Pro/SP2 with Office Pro 2003. In Word, I want to have two columns: (1) I want the text of what was said at a meeting in the left (larger) column. (2) I want to put the odd comment in the right column. On 07 Aug 2006, CyberTaztypegeneraltaz1ATcomcastdotnet wrote: One option - Try using a 2-Column *Table* rather than newspaper-type Column layout. Bob Jones, [MVP] Office:Mac Bob, a table makes for a lot of work skipping between cells because the left side will be a transcript of what was said at a meeting lasting 45 minutes. Any other ideas? |
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How have 2 columns without using second column?
Well, you could use my suggestion instead.
-- 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. "Andy" wrote in message ... "Andy" wrote in message I am on XP Pro/SP2 with Office Pro 2003. In Word, I want to have two columns: (1) I want the text of what was said at a meeting in the left (larger) column. (2) I want to put the odd comment in the right column. On 07 Aug 2006, CyberTaztypegeneraltaz1ATcomcastdotnet wrote: One option - Try using a 2-Column *Table* rather than newspaper-type Column layout. Bob Jones, [MVP] Office:Mac Bob, a table makes for a lot of work skipping between cells because the left side will be a transcript of what was said at a meeting lasting 45 minutes. Any other ideas? |
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How have 2 columns without using second column?
Try using tables format, instead of columns. Just a suggestion. It might
work. I don't know about Publisher. I have never tried with that. I do go to websites that have attachments and comments, but have never tried to create them. It's worth a try in word. I just experiment until I find a way. No manual will ever be able to answer any of our questions, except simpliest -- unless you want to spend the rest of your life learning all the updates that are supposed to be so useful. "Andy" wrote: I am on XP Pro/SP2 with Office Pro 2003. ---- In Word I want to have two columns: (1) I want the text of what was said at a meeting in the left (larger) column. (2) I want to put the odd comment in the right column. Can I do this in Word? |
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How have 2 columns without using second column?
Try creating two tables -- sorry I cut off my first message; but wrote another
"Andy" wrote: "Andy" wrote in message I am on XP Pro/SP2 with Office Pro 2003. In Word, I want to have two columns: (1) I want the text of what was said at a meeting in the left (larger) column. (2) I want to put the odd comment in the right column. On 07 Aug 2006, CyberTaztypegeneraltaz1ATcomcastdotnet wrote: One option - Try using a 2-Column *Table* rather than newspaper-type Column layout. Bob Jones, [MVP] Office:Mac Bob, a table makes for a lot of work skipping between cells because the left side will be a transcript of what was said at a meeting lasting 45 minutes. Any other ideas? |
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How have 2 columns without using second column?
On 10 Aug 2006, Suzanne S. wrote:
Well, you could use my suggestion instead. I'm getting lost here. Am not clear what your suggestion was. I do not see any other posts by you to this thread. |
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How have 2 columns without using second column?
Hmm. Could have sworn I'd posted, but I think I was thinking of another
thread in which someone wanted a column of empty space for inserting handwritten notes. I think you are trying to insert comments in the actual Word document, though, so my article at http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm might offer a better way. -- 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. "Andy" wrote in message ... On 10 Aug 2006, Suzanne S. wrote: Well, you could use my suggestion instead. I'm getting lost here. Am not clear what your suggestion was. I do not see any other posts by you to this thread. |
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How have 2 columns without using second column?
On 16 Aug 2006, Suzanne S. wrote:
Hmm. Could have sworn I'd posted, but I think I was thinking of another thread in which someone wanted a column of empty space for inserting handwritten notes. I think you are trying to insert comments in the actual Word document, though, so my article at http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm might offer a better way. Really good article. Thank you. Can I ask one extra thing. If I have a lot of text in another file and I create a 2 column table in MS Word (with lots of rows) then when I paste all the text goes into a single cell of the table. Is there a way to go through this text and insert a "row dividing lines" (which would go right across the table) at various points? I hope can see what I mean. |
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How have 2 columns without using second column?
I can see what you mean, but I don't think there's any way to do what you
want quite the way you say. If you paste the text into a table as is, you'll end up having to repeatedly split cells (or insert new rows) and drag text into the new cells. What you could try instead is this: Assuming you have multiple paragraphs of text that you want to put in a table, and that you want each paragraph in its own cell, all in the left (or right) column, the other column left empty, then you can do it by converting. The trick is that you want Word to make each paragraph of text a cell, but you will also need empty paragraphs to create empty cells. If you've set up your manuscript "wrong" (in typical user fashion) with an empty paragraph between paragraphs to create a blank line, then you're actually all set for this exercise. If you've created it correctly, with no empty paragraphs, then you'll need to add them; you can do this by using Find and Replace to replace ^p with ^p^p. Once you have text paragraphs and empty paragraphs alternating, select the text and use Table | Convert | Text to Table, separating at paragraphs. Word will suggest either one column or some wild number, so change the number of columns to 2. If you want the left column blank, begin your selection with an empty paragraph; if you want the right column blank, start with a text paragraph and end with an empty paragraph. Word will create a two column table with all the text in the left (or right) column, one paragraph per row. -- 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. "Andy" wrote in message ... On 16 Aug 2006, Suzanne S. wrote: Hmm. Could have sworn I'd posted, but I think I was thinking of another thread in which someone wanted a column of empty space for inserting handwritten notes. I think you are trying to insert comments in the actual Word document, though, so my article at http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm might offer a better way. Really good article. Thank you. Can I ask one extra thing. If I have a lot of text in another file and I create a 2 column table in MS Word (with lots of rows) then when I paste all the text goes into a single cell of the table. Is there a way to go through this text and insert a "row dividing lines" (which would go right across the table) at various points? I hope can see what I mean. |
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