You need to insert continuous section breaks before your next change of
column numbers (ie. from 2 back to 1). Click Insert, Break, Continuous
Section break before the change.

"Jack Sprat" wrote:

I want to type two column food preperation menues on one page, stop them,
have a sentence run all the way across the page, then start columns again.
All on a single page. As of now each time I change from two coulmns to one
it changes the whole page to one column. I have MicroSoft 2002 (10.4219...}