I'm asking because perhaps I've set off in the wrong direction in the first place and because what I googled doesn't work.



I had a narrow photo inserted in the document and it took a little less than half the width of the page.

So I thought I might fill the other half with text.

So I selected the photo and about an equal amount of text and selected 'two column' and lo and behold, I got two columns.

Would have been perfect it if had been only text, but it was meant to be a table so I set to work tabbing and spacing to get the stuff lined up and make a table of it.

And it was just too wide. Just a bit too wide.

So I googled and found 'select the column and use the column markers to change the width'.

And I selected the column and I found the column markers and I was able to move them though it didn't work smoothly. So I selected the photo column and reduced the size of the photo and attempted to reduce the size of that column so's I could increase the size of the other....

and so on...

and I've been unable to achieve success...

Perhaps I'm going about it the wrong way?

Hi abrogard,

Instead of trying to use two columns, right-click on the photo and choose Text Wrapping > Square. This allows you to move the picture around on the page independently of the text, which will wrap around it.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thank you. Tried it and it works just great... motoring right along now...