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December 6, 2019
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Cancel the double column that happens when placing my spreadsheet into InDesign?

  • December 6, 2019
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I did something in my InDesign CS6 document tonight by mistake and I don’t know how I did it or how to undo it or cancel the option.

I have always used InDesign to insert my excel spreadsheets into.
When I put my page flow curser where I want my spreadsheet to be placed and left click, it places my spreadsheet into my document but it puts it in as a two columns. I have to go to the top tool bar and manually change it from two columns to one column. I have to do this on every page I carry the spreadsheet over onto.

 

I never had to do this before. I have not change any of my document setting that I know of, unless I did something by mistake.

 

I know it is a setting in this document that I am working in. Because if I open an older version of this same document, I don’t have this problem. That tells me that something got changed while I was working in the document tonight. I just don’t know what it was. Can someone please help me?

 

I have attached a screenshot so you can see what I am talking about.

 

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Legend
December 6, 2019

Open InDesign, do not open any file and do not create a new one.

Go to the Menu:Text>Text Frame Options,

Very likely the number of columns is set to 2, change back to 1. 

Check other values, that's the default text frame (where you write or place text files or spreadsheets).

Click OK and ose that window. 

Now open a new file and draw a text frame and see how many columns has, or place a spreadsheet that automatically creates a text frame where it is hold into.