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Doug Robbins - Word MVP Doug Robbins - Word MVP is offline
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Default How do I write in both columns when I format my word document?

With "newspaper" type columns, you need to insert a column break to move
from the first to the second column. (Page Layout tabBreaks in Page Setup
section of RibbonColumn)

If you want to switch backwards and forwards, maybe you should be using a
two column table instead. If you go this route, insert new rows every now
and then as exceptionally long rows (spanning pages) can be a bit of an
issue.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"lauraM" wrote in message
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I am typing a document in word and I need two columns formatted with text
in
both. I am only able to write in the left column and cannot type in right
column. Please help.