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Colums in a cell

Dec 13, 2010 11:51PM PST

I want to make two colums within a cell in Word. Is there any way to do that?

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From memory
Dec 14, 2010 4:16AM PST

I don't have Word on this system but from memory all I had to do was highlight the cell, right click, and select Split cell. The wording may be different.

If that doesn't work then you may have to cheat. Insert a whole new column then merge every other pairs of cells, but leave one pair un-merged.

Mark

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Clarification
Dec 14, 2010 7:09AM PST

I don't mean splitting the cell by creating a new column in the table, I meant keeping the cells intact and just having teh text flow in separate "newspaper" columns.

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That might be different
Dec 14, 2010 6:32PM PST

Word already has the "Newspaper format" ability as a separate option. You don't say which version of Word you are using, but in Word 2002 I can do that from Format > Columns.

Some links that might help;

Creating Columns in Word

Using Parallel Columns.

I hope that helps.

Mark

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I tried that before posting
Dec 14, 2010 11:31PM PST

It doesn't work on text within a cell, it splits up the whole row differently.

Thanks anyway.

Any one else have an idea?