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Article: Creating columns and boxes.
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- Personal Computer World
- Article date:
- July 10, 2008
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Byline: Tim Nott
Creating columns and boxes
Make pages easier to read with columns and boxes, and a look at the OpenOffice beta
Last month we looked at several DTP-like features in Word, including getting pictures precisely where you want them, tweaking text wraps around graphics and using the drawing canvas to annotate a picture with call-outs. This month we'll take in two more powerful page layout features - columns and text boxes.
Newspaper-style columns - such as those you are reading now - are not just used to make page layouts more versatile - they're a major aid to legibility. If this page, for example, were set in one column, ...