RE: changing to 2-column format in middle of file, later & smarter

["Deborah Snavely" <dsnavely@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Of course, I only thought of the other approach once I sent the antique
Frame technology posting. 

>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.
<snip>
>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.

Alternate method:
1 Convert each "table" into a Frame one-column table, one line per cell.
Then create a second column to the right of the one column. 
2 If the multiple bulleted bold heads are really all heads for a single
table, merge those cells into a single heading cell and merge it across
both columns. 
3 Apply an autonumbered paragraph style to the cells to get a quick
count of how many body cells you've got in that table, and then copy the
bottom half of them (say you have 98 cells, copy cells 50-98) and paste
them into the right column of the table.  If you have an odd number, I
recommend leaving the one odd extra in the bottom left cell.
4 Apply the correct paragraph styling for the body cells to get rid of
the numbers. 
5 Make any format adjustments to the table tag, etc. for orphan rows and
such. (I recommend never mucking with "Keep with Next Row" if you don't
want some poor Framer cursing your name in the next edition; I straddle
cells if two paragraphs in a table shouldn't break.)

Hope that's clear. As you can see, neither solution is ideal, but at
least the true table solution gives you output that will flow with the
rest of the text, and unless you're the proofreader before press, the
split-frame method requires constant tweaking to maintain.



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