MS Word: Convert pages to columns?

[anonymouse1]

I've got a about 300 pages of mixed text and illustrations.

What I want to do is to turn each page into a column in a table, so that I can put commentary in the facing column, while maintaining the current page breaks.

Anybody know a way to do this? I've tried converting paragraphs into tabs and paragraphs, and converting into a table, but it didn't work--I lost the page breaks.

Thanks.

[bazookaman]

If i'm understanding correctly, what I would do is create a new Word doc with a 2 column table. Then select everything from your old doc, copy it and paste it into column A in your new doc. I cannot think of why that wouldn't work...but it is Microsoft. I don't know if it would maintain your page breaks though.

[btfc]

"I don't know if it would maintain your page breaks though."

If I'm understanding correctly, I don't think it would maintain them. You could turn each page into a graphics file or .pdf and they could be resized to your heart's content. Or possibly manipulate the document size.

[space-time]

reduce font size and line spacing and then the right size of the page, then see if you can insert a text BOX in the right side in the new empty page and put your notes in there

[hal]

just shoot yourself in the head now...

:-)

[space-time]

AMEN!