Balancing text lines among columns in word

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Mustafa Basaran

Is it possible to balance the text lines in multicolumn layout in word
similar to Microsoft Publisher. I mean alignment of bottom lines of
paragraphs among two colums.

Thanks for your helps
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Insert a Continuous section break at the end of the multi-column section,
and the columns will be balanced by default.

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Mustafa Basaran

There is a misunderstanding, Sorry for my english but I didn't mean balance
of individual columns. A continous section break enables balancing
individual colums but not align the lines of text between
columns.Misalignment usually cased by different paragraph styles especiall
headings with before after spaces. I know this is something expected from a
desktop publishing package (eg MS publisher can do this) but open office 1.1
can do this by registering lines by a specific paragraph style. Therefore I
expect this might be possible in Word.

thanks again for your helps
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Ah, it's the baselines you want to align. No, Word is not much good at this,
I'm afraid. The only way to accomplish it is by trial and error with Space
Before.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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Mustafa Basaran

Yes, axactly what I mean. Although primitive I developed a solution; I
create some paragraph styles with 3, 6, 9, 12 points of exact lines without
before after space. I put these in necessary places with the hope that if
necessary I can update the width of these lines with ease... Primitive and
not perfect but working somehow...

I would like to thank you for your helps
 
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