footers and paragraphs in multi-column docs

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Thomas - 29 Nov 2007 22:56 GMT

I have two questions.

First, is it possible to make a footer span only one column of a two-column
document?
Second, is it possible to insert a continuous section in the center of a
justified paragraph and not lose the justification of the final line prior to
the continuous section? The reason for doing this would be to insert a figure
that spans both columns of the document at a specific point while keeping the
text in multiple columns.

Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 30 Nov 2007 00:45 GMT

You can give the footer paragraph a left or right indent to confine it to a
single column. If you need footer material in both columns, you could use a
two-column borderless table in the footer.

If you insert the figure with Square wrapping, you won't need any section
breaks at all.

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Thomas - 30 Nov 2007 16:03 GMT

The footer still occupies the entire bottom portion of the document (I
realize that this is probably the definition of a footer) but I have seen
several examples of where the "footer" is confined to a single column and the
other column on the page extends below the beginning of the footer. (This is
in Word 2007.) I am guessing this is a text box disguised as a footer?

> You can give the footer paragraph a left or right indent to confine it to a
> single column. If you need footer material in both columns, you could use a
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> > Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 30 Nov 2007 16:50 GMT

Yes, it would probably be a text box or frame anchored to the footer. See
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/AnchorToHeader.htm for more information
and some examples.

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

> The footer still occupies the entire bottom portion of the document (I
> realize that this is probably the definition of a footer) but I have seen
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>> > Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide.

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