page with columns in one area, and no columns in another

Hi etc,

Don't insert anything. Select the text that you want in columns

Format Panel > Layout tab > Columns > 2

Numbers inserts the column breaks for you. It seems to have deleted the paragraph marks. Put them back to adjust the spacing.

Regards,

Ian.

Hi ctc,

What versions of

Pages (Pages menu > About Pages)

and

OS X/macOS (Apple menu > About this Mac)

are you using?

Using Pages 5.6.2 in OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan, I did the following:

Opened a new blank word-processing document.

Pasted in ten 'paragraphs' of dummy text, matching the default style set for the document.

Pasted a second copy of the text to have text to a second page.

Selected paragraphs 3 to 8.

Clicked the Format Brush, and chose Text, then chose Layout.

Changed the columns setting from 1 to 2.

Results shown below:

Regards,

Barry

Set View menu : Show Invisibles.

Insert the single paragraph text, and at paragraph end, select a Spacing After Paragraph amount equal to the gap that you want to introduce before the two columns. Press return. Insert a column break, and then immediately insert the text that you want to appear in two columns. At the end of this text, again set the After Paragraph amount as you did in the first block of text. It should be the same amount as previous for proper visual distribution. Press return.

Select the text that you want to appear in columns, and In the Layout tab, set your column count to 2, with equal columns. After the trailing paragraph mark, insert your last regular paragraph of text, and set View menu to Hide Invisibles.

This layout will export properly to PDF, but not to MS Word. Keep that in mind.

There are multiple ways to achieve mixed column content. I have shown, and discussed one approach that I systematically tested prior to my last post. Find the illustrated solution here that is simplest for you to implement, and use that approach.

Something like this as shown in Pages v7.3:

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