section break not working

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Micayla Bergen

i have two columns in a part of my doc, i want to insert a section break so
that i can have a heading spanning both columns, but when i have my cursor in
the right spot and insert the break it is inserted back at the beginning of
the section, and i do not know why
thank you anyone
 
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Luc

Micayla Bergen,
And the right spot would be? What do you mean by heading is it a title
(centered above the two columns) or a numbered heading style?
If you want the centered title, click before the first character of your
first column and insert a Continuous section break
Now click at the beginning of the new section break, click on the column
button and drag 1 column release the mouse.
Type your titletext and center it. If you want you can delete the old
continous section break just above your new one.
Luc
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

The easiest way to do this is to type the title at the top of the first
column in the section where you want the title to span both. Then select
just the title, go to Format | Columns, and choose One. Word will take care
of inserting the necessary section breaks. If you are using Word 2003, you
can use the Columns button to do this, but there is a bug in some previous
versions that makes this risky.
 
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Micayla Bergen

My doc is 12 pages long, and the columns begin on page 3. the text (heading
1) i want to centre is half way down the page on page 6. when i insert a
section break at my heading it is inserted on page 3. i do not understand
Thank you Luc
 
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Micayla Bergen

originally it isnt my document, i have now seen that it is a table with one
continuos row and two columns, not a columned doc. so. can i stop the table
or break it up somehow midway down?
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Not easily, no. You'll need to split each of the cells into (at least) two
rows. Copy/paste some of the text from each top cell into the new bottom
cell. Then insert a new row between the two rows, merge the two cells, and
put your heading there. But if this is really supposed to be column text,
you'd do much better to use Table | Convert | Table to Text and do it the
way it should have been done in the first place.

Also note that if you had had table gridlines displayed, you would have
known immediately that you were dealing with a table. Viewing nonprinting
characters, text boundaries, table gridlines, and every other formatting
clue I can get is the only thing that keeps me sane, especially when dealing
with documents I didn't create (unless I'm supposed to just look at them and
not try to "fix" them, in which case I need to turn everything off so that I
don't gag at all the extra spaces, tabs, empty paragraphs, etc. <g>).
 
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