Thanks gmayor - that helped a lot!

What is slightly embarrassing is that in order to switch from a three column page 1 to a two column page 2, and in order to keep column 1 the sam width on each page I had already determined the column width.

A brilliant example of ACTUAL lateral thinking!

I was thinking of identifying the vertical position of the "cursor", which is moderately easy when encountering a page break, but still eluded me when forcing a column break.

Going horizontal works a treat.

(Although you'd think there would be some convenient Information property like "wdCurrentColumnOnPage"; or is that falling into the trap of assuming Microsoft want to be helpful?)

Thanks again...