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Cannot get rid of lines surrounding text after using the column function in Format.

Asked by Jonation Bevington

Probably is extreemly easy but... Every time I select text to format into columns it does so but drws a table or lines around all the text and between the columns. Cannot for the life of me persuade it not to. So go to format select column and it does so but in a visable table. I just want the text to go into columns with no surrounding lines.

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#1

The line you are seeing is a non-printing separator between text boundaries.

To disable these lines being shown in the editor (they will never appear in a printout, or a PDF, and are purely to help you format your document more easily), select view->Text boundaries.

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) said : 		#2

Hi

Normally text in columns is separated by a line, but only if this is selected. If you have a full box around your columns, this must be due to some other mechanism.

To start, have a look at your page style. You can get this by doing Format > Page. Then selecting the Borders tab. This where a box round the text is set. You can unset it for the current document there.

However you may have borders set for your Default page style. To change that, do F11 and modify the Default page style there before you start.

Look in Help for more about Styles and how to manage them.

Tony

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