Originally Posted by Kimberly

Number of columns is a fact about the section, not the page. If I were you, I would leave it as one column until I was 100% finished with that chapter, and then change the first page to 2-columns.

The first page (of the chapter) is one-columned, it is the other pages which are two-columned.

This works out OK really, since it is always recommended that you paginate last thing. Just add setting columns to the list of finishing chores.

Are you saying that I complete the chapter and once it is finished, set the first page to single-column and subsequent pages to double columned?

There are other tools (linked textboxes, tables) to achieve multiple-columns, but none of them will work better in this situation, and in fact would be much harder to maintain.

I sure hope this helped.

I use Word to write books too. Styles make it so easy and fun.