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Column width of follow-up pages
Hi all,
I'm creating a .dotx template in Word 2007. The first page and the follow-up pages will have a two-column lay-out. The columns at the follow-up pages are narrower than those on the first page. To make thinngs clear, I've illustrated my idea: http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/9307/columns.jpg I can manage to make the columns on the follow-up page narrower. But when I delete my dummy content from the template and start typing until I reach the follow-up page, the columns on the follow-up page has the same with as those on the first page. I've tried to work with section-endings, but their position looks like relative to the text, so they move along with the text when I type. How can I manage that the columns on the follow-up pages stays narrower, even when I deleted the dummy content? Thanks in advance, - Mark The Netherlans |
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Column width of follow-up pages
My first thoughts are that you have Different First Page attributed to the
section, this could allow for different Margin settings. Go to Page Setup and see if this attribute has been checked, if you dont need a different first page, then uncheck it. If you do, change the margin settings on page 2, etc to match those of the first page. Hope this helps DeanH "Markk" wrote: Hi all, I'm creating a .dotx template in Word 2007. The first page and the follow-up pages will have a two-column lay-out. The columns at the follow-up pages are narrower than those on the first page. To make thinngs clear, I've illustrated my idea: http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/9307/columns.jpg I can manage to make the columns on the follow-up page narrower. But when I delete my dummy content from the template and start typing until I reach the follow-up page, the columns on the follow-up page has the same with as those on the first page. I've tried to work with section-endings, but their position looks like relative to the text, so they move along with the text when I type. How can I manage that the columns on the follow-up pages stays narrower, even when I deleted the dummy content? Thanks in advance, - Mark The Netherlans |
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Column width of follow-up pages
Word is not really a page layout program, and I don't think there's going to
be any practical way for you to do this. In a page layout program such as Publisher, you'd use text boxes instead of columns for your text, and you could do this in Word as well, but the limit on the number of *linked* text boxes is 32, which might not be enough for your purposes, and it adds incalculable complexity to the document. Dean's suggestion of using "Different first page," with a text box or AutoShape anchored to the Header to create an artificially larger right margin on pages 2ff, would work for a single column, but I'm not convinced it would for two columns (haven't tried it), and of course it wouldn't allow you to put different content in that other space, if that was your plan. That said, the only way to change the column width is with a Continuous section break, and you cannot have text flowing across a section break, so you cannot just keep typing and expect it to stay in place at the bottom of the first page. So, as I say, no really practical way to accomplish this in Word. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Markk" wrote in message ... Hi all, I'm creating a .dotx template in Word 2007. The first page and the follow-up pages will have a two-column lay-out. The columns at the follow-up pages are narrower than those on the first page. To make thinngs clear, I've illustrated my idea: http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/9307/columns.jpg I can manage to make the columns on the follow-up page narrower. But when I delete my dummy content from the template and start typing until I reach the follow-up page, the columns on the follow-up page has the same with as those on the first page. I've tried to work with section-endings, but their position looks like relative to the text, so they move along with the text when I type. How can I manage that the columns on the follow-up pages stays narrower, even when I deleted the dummy content? Thanks in advance, - Mark The Netherlans |
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