mcdonald386 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 In Pageplus it was possible to create a master page with 2 (or more columns). Text frames could then be sized to the columns or across them. I don't think this is possible in Publisher. McDpnald386 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 You can add guides to a master page to create columns (and rows) which will then 'punch through' to the pages that use that master page. Then you can use snapping to size the frames to the guides. The current problem is that you have to calculate where the guides should be manually rather than just saying "give me two columns and three rows with a certain gap between each". It's awkward but usable. Many people have asked for a more user-friendly guides manager so hopefully something will be coming soon. somnolentsurfer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 5 hours ago, GarryP said: The current problem is that you have to calculate where the guides should be manually rather than just saying "give me two columns and three rows with a certain gap between each". It's awkward but usable. Many people have asked for a more user-friendly guides manager so hopefully something will be coming soon. You could: Create a Text Frame with columns on a Master Page. Add guides to the Master Page, snapping them to the columns. Delete the Text Frame from the Master Page (because with the current Publisher implementation having that kind of Text Frame on a Master does not work well). Any document pages that you create based on the Master should then have the guides properly positioned, and you should be able to create a new Text Frame on the document page, snapping it to the guides. Or, rather than creating a new Text Frame and snapping it to the guides for each page, when you've created the first one, save it as an Asset. Then for each new document page you can simply drag the Asset onto the page, snapping it to the guides. You could even (I think) add a step 2.5 above and save the Master Page Text Frame as an Asset before deleting it in step 3. GarryP 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 Hmm... That might be a nice way of doing this sort of thing until Publisher can do it for us. Drawing/arranging the columns/rows as layers and then snapping the guides to the layers. I'll have to give it a try. Thanks for posting this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcdonald386 Posted October 3, 2018 Author Share Posted October 3, 2018 Thank you for these suggestions - very helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianBrum Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 Is it possible to adjust the column gaps in text box? Can't see a control for it. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 View > Studio > Text Frame has the control for gutter width. Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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