Creating a 3-column section style

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Carygee - 11 Mar 2007 12:14 GMT

I often create sections within a document that have three equal-sized
columns with custome small gutters etc. It's a bore to do this time and
time again.

How can I set up a section style which will contain paragraph and column
spacing settings etc.? Can one also add, say, auto hyphenation to this
style?

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Graham Mayor - 11 Mar 2007 13:06 GMT

You can't create a 'style' as such, but you could store your preferences in
a macro to apply the section break, columns and hyphenation eg

Sub ThreeCols()
Dim sView As String
sView = ActiveWindow.View
ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdPrintView
Selection.InsertBreak Type:=wdSectionBreakContinuous
With Selection.PageSetup.TextColumns
.SetCount NumColumns:=3
.EvenlySpaced = False
.LineBetween = False
.Width = CentimetersToPoints(3.55)
.Spacing = CentimetersToPoints(1)
End With
ActiveDocument.AutoHyphenation = True
ActiveWindow.View = sView
End Sub

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

The width of the columns and the spacing between them can be set to match
your preferences.

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> I often create sections within a document that have three equal-sized
> columns with custome small gutters etc. It's a bore to do this time
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> column spacing settings etc.? Can one also add, say, auto hyphenation
> to this style?

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Carygee - 11 Mar 2007 15:06 GMT

Thanks loads. And I learned a lot in the process. I also had to adapt it
to Word 2007 norms (Took ages to find and install the "Developer" tab).

Unfortunately, I couldn't save the macro "due to a file permission
error" whatever this means. (Oh please don't tell me this is a revival
of the Live One Care bug)

> You can't create a 'style' as such, but you could store your preferences in
> a macro to apply the section break, columns and hyphenation eg
[quoted text clipped - 19 lines]
> The width of the columns and the spacing between them can be set to match
> your preferences.

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