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%$$%^&**** Word 2000
So here I am on the Tower of Doom, editing a friend's manuscript. (Actually, I am not editing it. I put it into Styles so the eformatting will work, and I occasionally can't stand it and correct something I catch.) This gives me a first shot at doing this for my Alfreda novels, and helps this person out, who cannot afford to pay for this service.
I am going nuts.
I have hit a tiny, two line, three column area that was not, of course, built with columns.
I've never built columns in Word. Never had a need for them in fiction. This, of course, is nonfiction.
Clippy is useless; I pulled the plug on him. I just want to know, how do I place the type so these six words flow to where I want them, and duplicate the author's written manuscript? Four different attempts have not worked, and the system just died and is tattling to Microsoft.
This is your fault, Microsoft. If I could update the things you no longer allow to be updated, this probably would not be happening.
Time to buy That MS Office 2010. (One has to space out the expensive purchases.)
In the meantime, perhaps someone else has a better tutorial on columns in MS Office 2000....
I am going nuts.
I have hit a tiny, two line, three column area that was not, of course, built with columns.
I've never built columns in Word. Never had a need for them in fiction. This, of course, is nonfiction.
Clippy is useless; I pulled the plug on him. I just want to know, how do I place the type so these six words flow to where I want them, and duplicate the author's written manuscript? Four different attempts have not worked, and the system just died and is tattling to Microsoft.
This is your fault, Microsoft. If I could update the things you no longer allow to be updated, this probably would not be happening.
Time to buy That MS Office 2010. (One has to space out the expensive purchases.)
In the meantime, perhaps someone else has a better tutorial on columns in MS Office 2000....
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Two ways that occur to me. One, if you go to the ruler at the top of the page you should be able to place little arrow things on it. This will mark where tabbing will take you to. Tab to the first one, type your word, tab to the next one, type that word, etc. That's probably the easy way to do it.
The second way would be to create a table, with one cell for each column, and then make the table boundaries invisible. Probably only worth doing this way if you've made tables before or if the other way doesn't work for some reason.
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I'm thinking I should wait to hear from the Master Formatter before continuing with that section. If she has no suggestions (she does fiction 99% of the time, I believe) I will try your Tables idea. Thanks!