And, for those of us who find using menus to be a major inconvenience
compared to keyboard shortcuts, The Insert ... Manual Break ... Type ...
Column Break can be accomplished with Ctrl-Shift-Enter.
Nothing to add to the rest of the comments!
Dave
On 3/30/2014 22:10, Brian Barker wrote:
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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