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June 24, 2020
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Don't want to span columns

  • June 24, 2020
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Hi there, quick question. I have a document with two columns, which I never want to span. Worked fine on the first page. On the second page, however, text & borders are spanning the columns. Both paragraph styles that I tried are set to Single Column. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

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Correct answer Mike Witherell

Have you considered making an Object Style for the textframes and then apply that object style to the frames on pages 1 and on. In the Object Style, you can define how spanning works, how many internal columns you want, etc.

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Mike Witherell
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Community Expert
June 24, 2020

Have you considered making an Object Style for the textframes and then apply that object style to the frames on pages 1 and on. In the Object Style, you can define how spanning works, how many internal columns you want, etc.

Mike Witherell
anthony01Author
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June 24, 2020

Thanks, Mike! I changed the columns in the Basic Textframe Object Style to two, and this fixed the problem. (Also clicked on the Master Page first, but I don't know if that does anything.) I couldn't find the span settings in Object Style panel, so I didn't do that part. But anyway, this particular problem is fixed for now... 🙂

jmlevy
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June 24, 2020

I couldn't find the span settings in Object Style panel

Span settings are paragraph attributes, not frame attributes.

jmlevy
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June 24, 2020

Can you show a screen capture of the page, showing margins?

anthony01Author
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June 24, 2020