To prevent the problem in new documents, you will need to edit the Normal template. If you find that this solves the problem in one document, you can use the same technique in other saved documents that exhibit the same problem. This will check the "Equal column width" box. In the dialog, even if the number of columns is already set to 1, click the preset picture for More Columns., which opens the Columns dialog. Page Layout tab and, in the Page Setup group, click on Columns and choose In one of your problem documents, select the You can't check the "Equal column width" box yourself, but you can force Word to do it. The solution to both problems is the same. Width of 8.5"), obviously Word is going to balk.Īt the same time, sometimes Word will get it into its head that you have more than one column, but the first column is set to the entire margin width, so of course there's nowhere to display the second column, and its content disappears. When you try to change to Portrait orientation (that is, to a page If you have a Letter-sized document in Landscape orientation with 1" margins left and right, then the width between margins (your column width) is 9".
If the "Equal column width" box is not checked in the Columns dialog, then column width (even if there's just a single column) doesn't adjust automaticallyīut is preserved at the current setting. Both of these issues are symptoms of the same problem, which is a problem with the settings for columns.