Your paragraph is formatted with Space Before, which is suppressed after a
"soft" page or column break but not after a manual one. You can remove the
"Space Before" from the first paragraph in column 1.

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"jabroni" wrote in message
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Why doesn't the text on the top of column 2 align with column one? It's
not
even, text on top of column 2 is a bit higher compared to the text on top
of
column 1. This only occurs if I remove a column break from the bottom of
coulmn one. If I leave the column break in then the text on the top of
both
columns align evenly again???