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Old 01-29-2015, 07:16 AM
YooperNC YooperNC is offline How to automatically insert a line after a Column Break Windows 7 64bit How to automatically insert a line after a Column Break Office 2010 64bit
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I assume you haven't had any responses because nobody knows of a feature that does what you want automatically. FWIW, I don't see any lines at the top of the second column.

I note that Word doesn't have a way of automatically putting the repeated heading at the top of the new column either (unless your content is in a table). Since you need to manually insert this second instance I would just have an alternate style to apply to the second instance of the heading.

I would suggest a simpler alternative that removes the messiness. If the styles of both artist and song include the paragraph setting to 'keep with next' and you precede each artist paragraph with an empty paragraph that has a tiny line height and does not 'keep with next' then you would avoid any of these flow-over instances happening unless an artist had more than a column's worth of songs.

If you are using tables to get the heading to repeat automatically, you might be able to find relevant threads where people have asked how to include a (continued) on subsequent pages. This can be done with a floating white box but is so complicated that most people don't bother unless the requirement is VERY IMPORTANT.
Thanks for your reply. I really appreciate it.

The problem with "Keep with next" is that it would leave a lot of white space at the bottom of many columns. Our customers want a compact Songbook, and they would not want to see a lot of wasted space. And, yes, if a singer has more than one column's worth of songs, then the continuation would not include his/her/their name.

I'll look into the table suggestion. "(cont.)" is not a requirement, but I would consider it a "nice to have" if not too difficult to add.

Thanks again!
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