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Creating Balanced Newspaper Columns
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Revision Date: 06-Mar-97 1:13:42 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 6.0 for DOS

Problem

If you are working with newspaper columns and they do not fill a full page of text, WordPerfect can automatically balance the columns so that each column is approximately the same length.


Concept
In WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS, balanced newspaper columns keep the length of each column the same across a page. You will not need to figure out how many lines need to be in each column in order to balance them: WP 6.0 will do the formatting for you.

Previous versions of WordPerfect required you to manually place hard page breaks at the end of each column to keep all columns the same length. If you added or deleted text, you had to reformat the columns. With WP 6.0, as you enter text into a column, WordPerfect automatically adjusts the length of all columns to keep them balanced with one another. Since all columns are the same length, you can easily place text below the columns on a page.


How Do I Use It?
1      Retrieve a document you have already created, preferably one that doesn't take up a whole page.

2      Place your cursor at the top of the document.

3      Choose Columns from the Layout menu, or press Columns/Layout (Alt+F7) then choose Columns (1).

4      Choose Column Type (1), then choose Balanced Newspaper (2).

5      Choose Number of Columns (2).

6      Type 3, then press Enter.

7      Choose OK.

Your three newspaper columns should be equally balanced. You can balance any number of newspaper columns. As with regular columns, you can also set up the columns before you start typing. The columns will automatically adjust to accommodate the new text.


See Also
      Columns in the WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS reference manual

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