Judie Vegh wrote: > Doug and Art, > > Thanks so much for your responses, I will try these methods out and see > what works best for my situation. > > As a follow up to this, would it be possible if I wanted text to expand > across both columns at the bottom of the page? Say, instead of adding in > a graphic to explain my steps, I'd like to add in a text box with some > information relevant to the text/steps that are in the two columns? > Would that then require a different master page? >
Judie, Stay away from trying to format individual pages by inventing new master pages; instead, use the pagination tools available in the Designers and the options for anchored frames. Sounds like you want to have your page look like the ones you've made that have 2-col text at the top and a wide graphic spanning both columns at the bottom. You've done that by inserting an anchored frame and putting a graphic in it. But for your new purpose, don't put a graphic in the anchored frame. Draw a text box inside it instead and then type and format your explanatory text. Alternative methods would be to create a pgf tag set to Span All Columns and apply that to your "sidebar" text at the bottom of the page, or create a table (one or many rows/columns, borders or not, to suit) that spans all columns. A table or a spanning pgf tag pretty much limits you to positioning just after the 2-col body text unless you fuss with settings manually. If you want all these graphics and sidebar texts to be flush with the bottom of the page, an anchored frame can be set to Bottom of Column and will stay there even if your 2-column text is shortened. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "Developers explain How the Product Works. Technical writers explain How to Work the Product."
