You can simulate column formatting in your document by constructing text boxes and filling
the text boxes with text. In fact, if you want to use Word to create true newspaper-like
columns in a document—where the last entry in a column says “See rest of story on page
xxx”—your only choice is to create a series of linked text boxes. Word refers to the contents
of a single set of linked text boxes as a story; the text in a story flows from one text box into
the next, as needed.
As you might surmise from the terminology associated with it, this feature represents
Word’s way ...
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