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Chapter 3 Working with Document Parts 51

6 To quickly modify column width and spacing, use the document ruler. Click View in the

toolbar, and then choose Show Rulers. Drag the left or right edges of the gray gutter

areas in the horizontal ruler.

The white areas in the ruler

denote the text area within

columns.

The gray areas denote the

column gutters.

Note: To quickly create as many as four columns, click the Columns pop-up menu in

the format bar and choose the number of columns you want to use.

Dening Column Breaks

A column break ends the text ow in one column (leaving the rest of the column

blank) and continues it in the next.

To create a column break:

1 Click after the word where you want to end the text ow.

2 Choose Insert > Column Break.

The text breaks where you placed the insertion point and continues in the next text

column. If you insert a column break in a single-column layout, the text continues at

the top of the next page.

When you show invisibles in your document (click View in the toolbar and choose

Show Invisibles), a column break symbol marks the location of the column break.

This column break symbol is a formatting character called an invisible. See “Formatting

Characters (Invisibles)” on page 21 for more information about invisibles.

To delete a column break, click at the beginning of the line that follows the break and

press the Delete key.

Dening Layout Breaks

In a word processing document, a layout break ends one layout and starts a new one

in which you can dene dierent column characteristics and dierent layout margins.

Using layout breaks doesn’t aect the headers, footers, page numbering, or other

formatting specic to the document or section.

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