How do I turn selected text in a Pages document into two columns without turning the whole document into two columns?

Menu > Insert > Layout Break (before and after text) > click in text > Inspector > Layout > Layout > columns: 2
Peter

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jackiego26 wrote:
Bummer! Thought there would be something similar to Excel.
Excel describes this in different terms, and the Excel user goes through a different set of steps, but the reality is that in Excel as in Numbers you are shifting content from one set of cells to another, not 'deleting cells'.
If you were actually 'deleting cells' from rows 2-11 of a column, then shifting all cells right of the deleted cells into the space left by the 'deleted' cells, one of the results would be that at the right edge of the table, rows 2 through 11 would end one column 'earlier' than the rest of the rows (from which 'cells' had NOT been deleted.
Excel: Select the cells whose content is to be replaced, tell Excel to 'delete cells'. Tell Excel which direction to move content to fill the cells. Excel moves that content into the emptied cells.
Numbers (method 1): Select the cells whose content is to be moved. Copy. Select the first cell that is to receive the content. Paste.
Numbers (method 1a): Select the cells whose content is to be moved. Drag the content to the first cell that is to receive the content. Drop.
Numbers (method 2): Select the cells whose content is to be moved. Press shift-command-X (or go Edit > Mark for Move. Select the first cell to receive the content. Press Shift-command-V (or go Edit > Move.
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fourmcmahon wrote:
I couldn't find it in the user guide thanks!
Hi four,
The key to searches is a good search key. In your case (as in most), the search key is in your question. You are looking for information about "columns". Strip the "s" suffix from it, and your search key becomes "column"
Entered as a search key in the Pages '09 User Guide, "column" produces as its first hit, this line:
4 ...47 Defining Columns, 48 Defining | Contents
You could scan down the list for a better result, but you could just click that one and go to page 4 in the table of contents.
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47 Defining Columns
48 Defining Column Breaks
48 Defining Layout Breaks
49 Defining Layout Margins
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So with a single word search key and a single click, you've narrowed the search to a four page section of the User Guide.
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Clicking on any of the other page listings in this section will take you to that page, and put you within sniffing distance of a solution for your question.
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john the link is broken
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