Columns in an Index

[Thomas Scalise]

Esteemed colleagues,

 

I am running FrameMaker 8.0 p277 on Window XP Professional SP3. The page
format is A4 and it's the only book I have in that page size at present.

 

I have an Index, the first page of which remained one column while the
rest was in two-column format. No matter what I did with the Format
function, I could not get the first page into two-column format. I could
change the whole index into one-column format...that worked. But, when I
tried to change from that to two-column format the first page stayed in
one-column format. 

 

I solved the problem by importing the page layout of a two-column index
from another document (7.25 by 9 inches). It worked, but I then had to
manually size the pages to A4 to get what I needed.

 

I really want to know why I couldn't get the first page of the index to
behave without using gorilla tactics. Can anyone offer some suggestions?

 

 

Tom Scalise

Manager, Information Development

 

Cross Match Technologies, Inc

Palm Beach Gardens, FL, 33410

561-622-5416

561-622-9938 Fax

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