I am writing a long text document in Word 2000 (200+ pages). I want this in
two columns. One for the main narrative and the second for sidenotes relating
to the main narrative. At present I am using a Table of two columns with a
row for each paragraph. This method works but runs into formatting
difficulties which creates a lot of manual work. In particular, I allow rows
to break over a page but then the widow and orphan options no longer seem to
work, which means endless manual adjustments to avoid them. The newspaper
column appproach is no good because that aims to zig zag text up and down the
columns on a page. The text box approach is very tedious for such a long
document. Are there any other solutions?
Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 30 Oct 2005 17:56 GMT
I doubt that there is any better way than the two column table approach that
you have taken.

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>I am writing a long text document in Word 2000 (200+ pages). I want this in
> two columns. One for the main narrative and the second for sidenotes
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> columns on a page. The text box approach is very tedious for such a long
> document. Are there any other solutions?
Suzanne S. Barnhill - 31 Oct 2005 01:55 GMT
If the "sidenotes" are relatively brief, you might see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm

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> I am writing a long text document in Word 2000 (200+ pages). I want this in
> two columns. One for the main narrative and the second for sidenotes relating
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> columns on a page. The text box approach is very tedious for such a long
> document. Are there any other solutions?