Re: [libreoffice-users] Multiple columns in Writer

And, for those of us who find using menus to be a major inconvenience 
compared to keyboard shortcuts, The Insert ... Manual Break ... Type ... 
Column Break can be accomplished with Ctrl-Shift-Enter.

Nothing to add to the rest of the comments!

Dave



On 3/30/2014 22:10, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 21:27 30/03/2014 -0700, Andrew Noname wrote:
> > I would like to divide my page into two independently controlled 
> > columns.  Creating columns is easy enough to do.  However, I want the 
> > text in each column to start at the top of each column.  Think of two 
> > lists that are independent of each other, column 2 is NOT simply a 
> > continuation of column 1.  [...]
> >
> > I know that I can hit enter 30 times or so in the first column in 
> > order to start the text at the top of the second column, but I was 
> > hoping there was a smarter way, ...
>
> You can get to the top of a new column very simply and neatly by going 
> to Insert | Manual Break... | Type | Column break.  But that still 
> doesn't really serve your purpose, since although you talk of a single 
> page, your text might eventually want to expand to multiple pages.  In 
> that case, text from the left column would flow into the right column 
> on the first page, not the left column on the second; text from the 
> right column on the first page to the left column, not the right 
> column, of the second.  These are called "newspaper columns".
>
> > Simple in concept... not so simple to make happen in Writer.
>
> Actually, it is very simple.  Go to Table | Insert > | Table... and 
> create a table with two columns and (probably) one row.  You will find 
> that the table cells expand as necessary to accommodate your text - 
> even to additional pages - and that the two columns will remain 
> independent.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker


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