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Re: Boxes around columns

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From: MuffinHead
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1992 08:39
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jim@baker.dartmouth.edu (Jim Shain) writes:

>	I'm using Word 5.0 on the Macintosh and I would like to have
>two columns of text, on one page, with a full box around each column.
>The problem is  if you put a border around a column, the bottom of
>column 1 and the top of column 2, do not have a border (since those are
>in the middle of the columns.
>	I tried putting a return within the column, so a border would
>be drawn there.  I couldn't get the lines in the appropriate places.  
>Also, if I change anything in the columns, I would have to change 
>the place of the blank lines.
>	Any suggestions??

Instead of doing weird stuff like breaking the text in the middle of a sentence
to make a different section, just use Word 5's Picture tools and make a line
for both the top and bottom of the columns and use paragraph borders for the
vertical lines.

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From: smills@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (MuffinHead)
Subject: Re: Boxes around columns
Message-ID: <1992Jul13.083925.6004@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Keywords: columns borders
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1992 08:39:25 GMT
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