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226 Text Handling

You can of course also use the Columns dialog to reduce the number of columns on the
page if required.

Where you have exactly the same column arrangements on multiple pages (where they
are in the same text flow), you will be asked if you want the column changes to be made
to all those pages too, as described for manual text area changes. Therefore using this
Columns dialog you can instantly convert an entire document from single column to
multi-column, or back, if there is just a single text flow.
Column breaks

Insert a column break into a text area by using the TEXT TOOL to right-click at the point in
the text where which you want the break to occur. Then select "INSERT" > "BREAK" >
"MOVE TO NEXT COLUMN". Or use the shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+Enter).

A break inserted mid-way through the middle column (left) shifts the text into the next column
(right).

All the text after the column break now appears in the next linked text area in the current
flow, whether that area is on the same page or the next page.

Vertically aligned text

You can align text vertically within text areas, so it’s top, center or bottom aligned. This is
useful wherever you want to align multi-line text vertically with other features on the
page, especially text that you want to edit regularly so the number of lines varies.