Re: yes you can do it.

Given that we didn't even know it was a feature, I doubt that its failure
could be labeled a bug, anyway. Oh, well.

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"Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Right. The line number restart options (except None) all give exactly
the same results in this case. They do work properly when columns
aren't involved.

I think I can safely predict that this bug will have a priority of -5
on a scale of 1 to 10...

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On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 21:57:31 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
<sbarnhill@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Even if you have set them to restart in each section?

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"Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Interesting. I can make this work in Word 2003, but not in 2007. In
the latter, the "New column" section start works, but no matter which
start type I choose for the line numbers they are always continued
from the previous column.

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On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:52:01 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
<sbarnhill@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

I should have added that this is a neat trick and thanked you for
posting
it. Also, I find it interesting that if you view the columns thus
formatted
in Normal view, you see "Section Break (Continuous)" at the beginning
and
end of the multi-column section but just "End of Section" where you
have
the
"New column" break; I guess they couldn't think of a succinct name for
that
section break type.

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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It's possible that the "New column" section start is a newish
feature,
so
it
may not be available in all versions of Word. And of course you'd
have
to
manually move the section break if you added or deleted text in
either
column (same as would happen with a manual column break).

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"paul13" <paul13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Actually, you can do it, I just was told how.

Here is what you do.
1. Make your 2 columns.
2. Put a continuous section break where you want the columns to
break.
3. Click anywhere in the first section
4. click file>page set-up and then select the "layout" tab. Make
sure
that
section start is set to "new column" and that "preview - apply to"
is
set
to
"This section" click on "line numbers..." and set them to your
tast.
4. Click anywhere in the second section and repeat step 4!

That is all it takes.

Thanks,

Paul O

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 19:46:01 -0700, paul13
<paul13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am hoping to get the line numbers to restart with each
column.
Is
there
any way to do this? If I split the section with a continuous
section
break,
the columns break appart. Is there another way to get line
numbers
to
start
counting over at the top of each column?

You can't make real line numbers restart per column -- they just
don't
have that option.

You can use a trick from the legal brief templates.

First open the header area so the cursor is in the header's
paragraph.
That will ensure that the numbers appear on each page.

Draw a frame in the left margin (the frame tool is on the Forms
toolbar) about 0.3" wide and the length of the column. Type in
the
numbers, pressing Enter after each one; you probably want to use
right-alignment. You can set a smaller font size, but then be
sure
to
set the line spacing to an Exact value to match the regular
text.

Right-click the edge of the frame, choose Format Frame, and set
the
horizontal position to -0.5" relative to the margin and the
vertical
position to 0 relative to the margin.

Click the edge of the frame to select it, and copy it to the
clipboard. Click once more in the header paragraph and paste a
second
copy of the frame there -- it will overlay the first one.
Right-click
its edge, choose Format Frame, and set its horizontal position
to
3.0"
relative to the margin.

Close the header pane.

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