Hello Everyone,



I have set LANDSCAPE ORIENTATION AND TWO COLUMNS. Using Word 2010.

If a landscape page is divided in half horizontally and represents two pages side by side of, for example, a book, this is what I am trying to achieve with Word.

I find that I can enter text on the left side, but when I try to scroll down and hopefully end up on the opposite side of the landscape page, I keep getting a new page opening underneath.

Is there a command that I am missing to reproduce this effect?

Any advice would be gratefully received!

Thank you,

Regards

Colin.

Are you using Columns or a Table?

Hello Charles,
I am using columns.

Regards

Colin

Then it should continue to the next column when you continue typing.

Scrolling down will not be effective because of how Word treats scrolling. If you use the left/right arrow keys to scroll through text, Word will move to a column. If you use the scroll bar or the up/down arrow keys it will go by page.

I hope you are not using the Click-and-Type "feature." Until you type something in the second column, there is nothing there. The Click-and-Type inserts bunches of empty paragraphs and may mess with your formatting.

One method I use to do this is to actually format it as a portrait legal-size page (no columns) and then print two pages per sheet onto letter-size paper. Of course, the type is half-sized as well.

I like it! often a more robust approach to two-column layouts …

Er! Not familiar with 'click and type'! However I understand the bit about scrolling, many thanks, that has solved it!
Thank you.

Regards

Colin

Glad to have helped.

Click and Type refers to an option in word that is turned on by default when you install. It is what lets you click further down on a page and start typing there. If you have display of non-printing characters turned on you can see what it actually does, which is not pretty!

If it is still turned on in your Word installation, I recommend turning it off. It can be found under Options > Advanced > Editing Options.
Showing non-printing formatting marks in Microsoft Word

OK, Charles, Each day has a new learning curve! I removed the Tick/Check from Click & Type and hopefully this will improve the result!

I get somewhat frustrated with things that I don't understand! More so when it suddenly clears itself and I have no idea what I did to improve it!

Yesterday, when I printed a page, my HP 2050 "eat" a page straight through before printing the required page! I "fiddled" around and it has stopped, I have no idea what I did!

Thanks for your help, yet again!

Regards

Colin.

You are welcome. "Click and Type" was introduced with Word 2000 and has been the installation default since. The first thing I do when I install Word is turn it (and a bunch of AutoFormat as you type options) off.