Two-column text inside one-column text box?

[CyrilW@adobeforums.com]

Hello everybody,

I'm working on a small size book with a one-column text box threaded through the whole thing. There are some short lists that I'd like to run two-column in the body. Is there an easy way to do this without cutting and pasting the text into a new two-column text box with a text wrap?

Thanks for the help,

Cyril

[Diane_King@adobeforums.com]

You could assemble it into a two column table. That's the only way I can think of to avoid creating a separate text frame.

[Nini Tjäder]

Diane, You cannot have threaded text in a table though.

[Diane_King@adobeforums.com]

You cannot have threaded text in a table though.




I'm well aware of that, but if he wants that two column text to always be two column and move with text as it reflows, a table is really the only option. Threaded textboxes would not be sensitive to their contents and would constantly have to be readjusted if changes to the text caused reflow.

[Anne-Marie Concepcion]

Or you could paste a two-column text frame into the single-column one as an anchored object.

But Cyril said he doesn't want to create more text frames, so I guess that's out.

AM