Re: [libreoffice-users] Multiple columns in Writer

At 21:27 30/03/2014 -0700, Andrew Noname wrote:
> I would like to divide my page into two independently controlled 
> columns.  Creating columns is easy enough to do.  However, I want 
> the text in each column to start at the top of each column.  Think 
> of two lists that are independent of each other, column 2 is NOT 
> simply a continuation of column 1.  [...]
>
> I know that I can hit enter 30 times or so in the first column in 
> order to start the text at the top of the second column, but I was 
> hoping there was a smarter way, ...

You can get to the top of a new column very simply and neatly by 
going to Insert | Manual Break... | Type | Column break.  But that 
still doesn't really serve your purpose, since although you talk of a 
single page, your text might eventually want to expand to multiple 
pages.  In that case, text from the left column would flow into the 
right column on the first page, not the left column on the second; 
text from the right column on the first page to the left column, not 
the right column, of the second.  These are called "newspaper columns".

> Simple in concept... not so simple to make happen in Writer.

Actually, it is very simple.  Go to Table | Insert > | Table... and 
create a table with two columns and (probably) one row.  You will 
find that the table cells expand as necessary to accommodate your 
text - even to additional pages - and that the two columns will 
remain independent.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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