RE: changing to 2-column format in middle of file

["Deborah Snavely" <dsnavely@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Irene,

Well, I didn't see any answers to this in my last weeks' scanning and
just got back to Framers after a holiday over the solstice and house
guests. 


Just in case you still need this info, here's HOW one can do it in
Frame. 

WARNING 1: this method lays it out but DOES NOT automatically flow the
two-column format with the two-column content. Finding a table solution
in Frame is better. But you can do it.

Warning: this method lets you change from a one-column flow to a
two-column flow and back, somewhat like Word, BUT...in Frame you must:

In Frame 6...(note, some behaviors may differ in 5.5.6)

1. Split the text frame on the page where you need to change from one
column to two-column. Put cursor before your "table" and select
Format/Customize Layout/Split Text Frame.
(In Word, this is a "section" break and can occur mid-page. Causes other
headaches, but this action is easier.) You'll get a warning about
untagged flows.

2. Click in the text frame where the table is, and set its layout to be
two columns. (Format/Customize Layout/Customize Text Frame)

3. See whether your "table" flows onto the following page at all. 

4. Put cursor at the end of the table content and split the frame again.


5. Click in the frame below the table and set its layout to be one
column.

I'm sure there's a better way (me, when converting Word tables to Frame
tables, if they aren't tables I just stick in the necessary one or two
tabs in Word and copy the text over and then convert to table in Frame.
It's never pretty if the Word author used gobs of tabs to layout a table
by the typewriter method, instead of using real tables. I think from
your description, though, you could convert this to a Frame table and
clean it up faster than playing with split frames.

Either way, it's a challenge, like everything else in Microsoftland.  :)
Happy editing!


Deborah Snavely
Document Architect
Learning Products Engineering
Aurigin Systems, Inc. 
home office: 541-688-8690
voicemail only: 408-517-7414





Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 11:28:29 -0700
From: Irene Struthers Rush <irene@slonet.org>
Subject: changing to 2-column format in middle of file

Dear Wiser Framers,

I've been converting files from Word 2000 to Frame 6.0.  It has gone
pretty
well with one exception.  The Word files have several segments called
tables that really aren't - they are just listings, set in 2 columns.
Each
list has several bulleted bold heads, followed by a variable number of
indented entries.  In the Word file, each of these tables generally
started
on a new page and was 1 page long.  However, after conversion, the
tables
are starting in the middle of pages and coming out in a single long
column.
Starting in the middle of the page is not a problem, but the single
column
is.

I've gone through both the Adobe book and Tom Neuberger's book (the
on-line
Help files don't come up) and can't figure out how to set up a 2-column
format that starts in the middle of a page and ends somewhere on the
next
page.  I considered making a 2-celled table, but that won't break at the
bottom of the page and start again on the next page.

Anyone have a clue as to what I should do?

Thanks in advance,

irene

Irene Rush
Writing, Editing, Indexing
2471 Tierra Drive, Los Osos CA 93402
805 534 9456

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