Add columns to text frames

You can lay out text in columns. Columns are useful for designing text-intensive projects, such as newsletters, magazines, and newspapers. You can create columns of equal or varying widths and gutters. You can also apply right-to-left text flow to the columns for bidirectional (bidi) text, such as Arabic and Hebrew (Note that this option is available only for certain languages).

The text in the frame (left) was laid out in two columns (right).

To add columns to a text frame

2 .	Click Window Dockers Properties.

3 .	In the Properties docker, click the Frame button to display the frame-related options.

To resize text frame columns

1 .	Click the Text tool and select a text frame with columns.

To	Do the following
Manually adjust column and gutter width	Click the Text tool . Drag a column side selection handle.
Set a specific column and gutter width	In the Properties docker, click the Frame button to display the frame-related options. Click the Columns button , and type values in the Width or Gutter boxes.
Automatically create columns of equal width	In the Properties docker, click the Frame button to display the frame-related options. Click the Columns button , and enable the Equal column width check box.

To change the flow of bidirectional text in columns

2 .	Click Window Dockers Properties.

3 .	In the Properties docker, click the Frame button to display the frame-related options.

4 .	Click the Columns button .

The Right-to-left columns option is available only for bidirectional languages, such as Hebrew and Arabic. The proper keyboard must also be installed.

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