Dear Charles Kenyon,
thank you very much for your reply to my thread.

I tried the method you have kindly suggested but the columns remain fixed sized in this method. I mean i can change their width but that width remains for all other words. I am rather looking for a solution which will make my layout like in the image examples i have posted in my first post.

In the examples that I have posted there are no fixed columns for words and meanings. Some times is the meaning longer and sometimes the word takes more place than the word befor it. And my task is to get to that solution where for each word and its meaning there is no fixed width.

The original word file of my dictionary has over 1500 pages. My hope is that i can find an automated solution for the whole file, after which my layout looks like in one of the example images i have posted in this thread.