Hi!

I am trying to format a document for an opera libretto, and I want it to look like the attached picture example (screenshot from librettidopera.it, please excuse the fact that it is sideways). Essentially, I want the main body of the document to have the speaking parts and stage directions, and the margin to have the names of the the ones speaking each line. I can't use columns because columns are continuous from one to the next, and I tried using a 2x1 table, but the more pages a table takes up, the less willing it is to format cooperatively. Text boxes do not line up the way that I want them to. Any suggestions? Thank you!

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Use a Table to format your text.

4. Use Tables and Tabs to Arrange Text in Microsoft Word

Unless you're happy to use paragraphs with hanging indents (which would work fairly well in the scenario) a two-column table is the way to go - just start a new row for each change in speaker.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thanks Guys! The 2x1 table DID end up working out- the issue that I had been having, that when I edited test around the page breaks seemed to disappear, had an easy fix:

All I had to do was press apple-s to save, and all the disappeared text came back! Crazy that. Must be a glitch in the matrix.