Re: Changing column layout mid-document

[Bill Briggs <web@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

True enough, there are usually more ways than one.  I actually use a
combination of both methods to achieve different ends in the documents I
was talking about in the earlier post.  Separate files to make up a book,
and within some of those files, a selection of Master Pages to accommodate
tables of various sorts.

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>On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 10:53:34 -0500, "Lynda Simons" <lynda.simons@sympatico.ca>
>wrote:
>
>>I have a document that is about 30 pages long and all one flow. I
>>would like to change the layout so that the first page is a single
>>column, the next 20 or so pages have two columns (newspaper style),
>>then the last 9 or so pages are single column again. What is the
>>most efficient way to do this?
>>
>>The single column pages don't need to flow into the double column
>>pages, so I could change flows, but I can't work out an easy way
>>to change the flow of 20 pages in the middle of a document.
>
>There isn't one.  This is one of the few cases where Word, with
>its ability to change layouts at section breaks, is more flexible.
>And *that* suggests another possibility:  can you break your doc
>into two (or three) "chapters", and make a book of the set?
>
>If your first part is always one page, no more, you could combine
>it with the second part in one doc using the normal FM first-page
>master method.  Then the third part, where you go back to single
>column, would be the second doc, with *no* special first page.
>
>-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
>  (jeremy@omsys.com)  http://www.omsys.com/
>
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