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[brickred]

can anybody tell me the trick for locking text onto a page in Word? I am creating a recital program for a recital this weekend and I always struggle with the layout, because every time I add/delete something, the layout of my entire program jumps around. In the past I've just muscled through it and tweaked the thing to death, but there HAS TO BE AN

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[nevers]

i wish i could help but i would never use word for layout for this reason. any way you can use a real layout program like indesign?

[brickred]

I don't have InDesign on my computer and this recital program has to be done this week. Plus, I've never used it before :) it's somewhat reassuring to know that you have this problem too, though! uuugh.

[nevers]

hmm. any way you can use cut and paste? that's what i'd do as a zinester :)

[nevers]

is it that when you have two columns, you don't want the first column to affect the second? or are you having problems across pages? cause ctrl+enter puts the text at the top of the next page no matter what happens on the page before it. but i dont know if there's an equivalent for columns.

[the_grin]

Hi Jess! I wonder if using a column break at the end of each column would work? Let's say you have 5 lines of text in Column A. After you type those 5 lines, hit Enter (you want to be on a new line when inserting a break). Then go to the Insert menu and choose Break > Column Break. Since it sounds like you have one column of text and one blank column on each page, you may have to insert two column breaks to get your cursor to the next column of text, but the trick should still work. If you use column breaks and then go edit the text in Column A, all the other columns of text should be unaffected. (It may work better if you start with a blank Word document and copy/paste the text from your original document, putting in the column breaks as you go, rather than trying to insert the column breaks into the original doc).

I hope that's helpful. This is the sort of thing I now help people with for a living, so it would be nice to help a friend once in a while too. :)

[brickred]

Sarah, this was a lifesaver! This is just what I needed. THANK YOU!