Columns in an Index

[Writer]

It's been a while since I've done this, but I think this is correct...

On the master page of the first index page, hold the CTRL key down and right-click the page's frame.

Choose Object Properties.

In the Columns area, define your column settings.

Click Set.

Hope that works. If it doesn't work on the master page, try it on the body page.

Nadine

--- On Fri, 6/18/10, Thomas Scalise <Thomas.Scalise at CrossMatch.com> wrote:

> From: Thomas Scalise <Thomas.Scalise at CrossMatch.com>
> Subject: Columns in an Index
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Date: Friday, June 18, 2010, 2:09 PM
> 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
> 
>  
> 
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