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I want to create a letter with a section with 2 columns. I have followed the
help directions and clicked on the column button on the standard tool bar. I
cannot insert the text into the second column.

I don't know what I am doing wrong or right. Can someone help?
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Hi Frustrated,

If the 2 columns are within the letter make sure you have

1. Continuous break before the 2 column section (Insert | Break |
Continous)

2. You can force the 2nd column by inserting a column break (Insert |
Break | Column Break) at the end of the
first column of text

3. Insert a continuous break after the text in the second column

Jerry Bodoff

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I want to create a letter with a section with 2 columns. I have followed

the
help directions and clicked on the column button on the standard tool bar.

I
cannot insert the text into the second column.

I don't know what I am doing wrong or right. Can someone help?



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Suzanne S. Barnhill
 
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If you need two parallel columns, you should be using a two-column table
instead of newspaper-style columns. The idea of the latter is to fill the
first column with text that then "snakes" into the second. If you need to
put text in the second column before the first is full, you can insert a
column break (Ctrl+Shift+Enter). See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/UsingColumns.htm

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"frustrated" wrote in message
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I want to create a letter with a section with 2 columns. I have followed

the
help directions and clicked on the column button on the standard tool bar.

I
cannot insert the text into the second column.

I don't know what I am doing wrong or right. Can someone help?


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