It sounds as if you need to be using a table rather than snaking columns;
see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/TableBasics.htm
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"Baffeled" wrote in message
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How do you switch from one column to the next column in MSWord, type some
words and then switch back to column 1 or go to column 3, type some words
and
then switch back to column 1?