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Hello. I'm working on a dialectical journal and I have to have two columns
with a passage from a piece of literature on one side and a response on the other side. How do I format it for the information on the right stays on the right and vice versa? Basically when I'm typing on the right side, it moves the left side down. How do I make each side work independently? |
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You can insert your data in a 2-column, borderless table instead of ordinary
columns. You can add a new row each time you want text in the two columns to be aligned. If you need information about working with tables, see the articles at: http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...ableBasics.htm -- Regards Lene Fredborg - Microsoft MVP (Word) DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "Bohottie" wrote: Hello. I'm working on a dialectical journal and I have to have two columns with a passage from a piece of literature on one side and a response on the other side. How do I format it for the information on the right stays on the right and vice versa? Basically when I'm typing on the right side, it moves the left side down. How do I make each side work independently? |
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Thank you. I thought that is what I'd have to end up doing. It's just sort've
a pain because it's going to end up being about 30 pages. "Lene Fredborg" wrote: You can insert your data in a 2-column, borderless table instead of ordinary columns. You can add a new row each time you want text in the two columns to be aligned. If you need information about working with tables, see the articles at: http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...ableBasics.htm -- Regards Lene Fredborg - Microsoft MVP (Word) DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "Bohottie" wrote: Hello. I'm working on a dialectical journal and I have to have two columns with a passage from a piece of literature on one side and a response on the other side. How do I format it for the information on the right stays on the right and vice versa? Basically when I'm typing on the right side, it moves the left side down. How do I make each side work independently? |
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There's no reason a table can't span 30 pages. If you want things aligned
left and right, use a new row for each set of items that needs to be aligned. When you reach the bottom right cell in a table, simply press the Tab key to insert a new row. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Bohottie" wrote in message ... Thank you. I thought that is what I'd have to end up doing. It's just sort've a pain because it's going to end up being about 30 pages. "Lene Fredborg" wrote: You can insert your data in a 2-column, borderless table instead of ordinary columns. You can add a new row each time you want text in the two columns to be aligned. If you need information about working with tables, see the articles at: http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...ableBasics.htm -- Regards Lene Fredborg - Microsoft MVP (Word) DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "Bohottie" wrote: Hello. I'm working on a dialectical journal and I have to have two columns with a passage from a piece of literature on one side and a response on the other side. How do I format it for the information on the right stays on the right and vice versa? Basically when I'm typing on the right side, it moves the left side down. How do I make each side work independently? |
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Indeed, it is vital that you do start a new row at least once per page. Word
becomes very uncomfortable and unwieldy (and unstable) with long single-row tables. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... There's no reason a table can't span 30 pages. If you want things aligned left and right, use a new row for each set of items that needs to be aligned. When you reach the bottom right cell in a table, simply press the Tab key to insert a new row. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Bohottie" wrote in message ... Thank you. I thought that is what I'd have to end up doing. It's just sort've a pain because it's going to end up being about 30 pages. "Lene Fredborg" wrote: You can insert your data in a 2-column, borderless table instead of ordinary columns. You can add a new row each time you want text in the two columns to be aligned. If you need information about working with tables, see the articles at: http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...ableBasics.htm -- Regards Lene Fredborg - Microsoft MVP (Word) DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "Bohottie" wrote: Hello. I'm working on a dialectical journal and I have to have two columns with a passage from a piece of literature on one side and a response on the other side. How do I format it for the information on the right stays on the right and vice versa? Basically when I'm typing on the right side, it moves the left side down. How do I make each side work independently? |
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