can newspaper columns be formatted differently from each other? in Word Page Layout    |   |  Help   Search For:     In:   Office   Word     Word General Questions     Word New Users     Word Application Errors     Word Drawing and Graphics     Word Mailmerge and Fax     Word Page Layout     Word Programming     Word Tables              Dockpost 11/2/2005 7:11 AM PST   Question   I want to do a contract where the left column is about 1.5 inches wide and is the title for the paragraph adjoining it in the next column. How do I do this? Can each column have different formatting and fonts? Thanks in advance     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Tony Jollans 11/2/2005 7:24 AM PST   Answer   Don't use columns; use a two-column table. You can apply individual formats to any selection of text you choose - in this case, in particular, to a table cell or a column. -- Enjoy, Tony "Dockpost" <Dockpost@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3DFFBD66-E587-43C0-A963-940EB3C8193D@microsoft.com... > I want to do a contract where the left column is about 1.5 inches wide and is > the title for the paragraph adjoining it in the next column. How do I do > this? Can each column have different formatting and fonts? > > Thanks in advance     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Dockpost 11/2/2005 12:40 PM PST   Wow, how easy was that---thanks a million!!! "Tony Jollans" wrote: > Don't use columns; use a two-column table. You can apply individual formats > to any selection of text you choose - in this case, in particular, to a > table cell or a column. > > -- > Enjoy, > Tony > > > "Dockpost" <Dockpost@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:3DFFBD66-E587-43C0-A963-940EB3C8193D@microsoft.com... > > I want to do a contract where the left column is about 1.5 inches wide and > is > > the title for the paragraph adjoining it in the next column. How do I do > > this? Can each column have different formatting and fonts? > > > > Thanks in advance > > >     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Suzanne S. Barnhill 11/2/2005 10:36 AM PST   You can have uneven columns, yes, but it sounds like what you're trying to do is have a heading spanning more than one column. If you have only two columns, just put the heading in a single-column section; if you have more than two, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/HeadingsSpanColumns.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Dockpost" <Dockpost@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3DFFBD66-E587-43C0-A963-940EB3C8193D@microsoft.com... > I want to do a contract where the left column is about 1.5 inches wide and is > the title for the paragraph adjoining it in the next column. How do I do > this? Can each column have different formatting and fonts? > > Thanks in advance     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Stefan Blom 11/3/2005 1:20 AM PST   In addition to the advice already given, you may also want to take a look at: http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Dockpost" wrote in message news:3DFFBD66-E587-43C0-A963-940EB3C8193D@microsoft.com... > I want to do a contract where the left column is about 1.5 inches > wide and is > the title for the paragraph adjoining it in the next column. How do > I do > this? Can each column have different formatting and fonts? > > Thanks in advance     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top         Return to Microsoft Communities   Notify me of replies