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kriserts
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July 3, 2018
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Text column says 1 but it is 2

  • July 3, 2018
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Hi, I'm working on someone else's mechanical and have an issue I've never seen before.

The text columns say "1" but the copy flows into 2 columns.

when I put "2" into the text column tool, then I get 4 columns.

I'm really frustrated. I want ONE column of type, and can't figure out why it's locked.

Any ideas?

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    Correct answer macpawel

    Go to Paragraph palette (CTRL+Alt+T) open palette menu (top right corner) and use Span Column Command.. Be sure you see Paragraph Layout: Single Column. Maybe your text is divided to columns via this option?

    pawel

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    krisertsAuthor
    Participant
    July 3, 2018

    That was it, the "span column" trick worked. Thanks!

    macpawel
    macpawelCorrect answer
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    July 3, 2018

    Go to Paragraph palette (CTRL+Alt+T) open palette menu (top right corner) and use Span Column Command.. Be sure you see Paragraph Layout: Single Column. Maybe your text is divided to columns via this option?

    pawel

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    SJRiegel
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    July 3, 2018

    My best guess is that the page has two side-by-side text boxes with one column each.

    Like this example (I have added a blue stroke to the threaded text boxes to better illustrate.)

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