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MS Word: Convert pages to columns? - anonymouse1 - 03-12-2012
I've got a about 300 pages of mixed text and illustrations.
What I want to do is to turn each page into a column in a table, so that I can put commentary in the facing column, while maintaining the current page breaks.
Anybody know a way to do this? I've tried converting paragraphs into tabs and paragraphs, and converting into a table, but it didn't work--I lost the page breaks.
Thanks.
Re: MS Word: Convert pages to columns? - bazookaman - 03-12-2012
If i'm understanding correctly, what I would do is create a new Word doc with a 2 column table. Then select everything from your old doc, copy it and paste it into column A in your new doc. I cannot think of why that wouldn't work...but it is Microsoft. I don't know if it would maintain your page breaks though.
Re: MS Word: Convert pages to columns? - btfc - 03-12-2012
"I don't know if it would maintain your page breaks though."
If I'm understanding correctly, I don't think it would maintain them. You could turn each page into a graphics file or .pdf and they could be resized to your heart's content. Or possibly manipulate the document size.
Re: MS Word: Convert pages to columns? - space-time - 03-12-2012
reduce font size and line spacing and then the right size of the page, then see if you can insert a text BOX in the right side in the new empty page and put your notes in there
Re: MS Word: Convert pages to columns? - hal - 03-12-2012
just shoot yourself in the head now...
:-)
Re: MS Word: Convert pages to columns? - space-time - 03-13-2012
AMEN!