CorelDRAW Help | Adding columns to text frames

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To change the flow of bidirectional text in columns

Adding 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

Select a paragraph text frame.

Click Window

Dockers

Object properties.

In the Object properties docker, click the Frame button

to display the frame- related options.

Click the Column settings button

In the Column settings dialog box, type a value in the Number of columns box.

To resize text frame columns

Click the Text tool

and select a text frame with columns.

Perform a task from the following table.


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 Object properties docker, click the Frame button to display the frame-related options. Click the Column settings button , and type values in the Width or Gutter boxes.
Automatically create columns of equal width	In the Object properties docker, click the Frame button to display the frame-related options. Click the Column settings button , and enable the Equal column width check box.