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Work with columns

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Work with columns

- [Instructor] Let's see how to work with text and columns in Affinity Publisher. In our document, we'll start on the master page and previously we saw how to add column guides by going to the view menu and choosing guides manager. In the dialogue, I can drag to add as many column guides as I need or enter the number directly. I'll enter two. The style can be filled or outlined. I'll go with filled. And you can choose the color. And the gutter space in between. I'll leave this at 24 points. And close the guide manager. And go to my document pages. Now, so far we just set the column guides. But how do you actually set text in two columns? There are different ways of doing that. If I drag out a new text frame to the margins with the frame text tool and fill it with filler text from the text menu, right now I have one column of text. But if I want two, I can go to the text frame panel by choosing view, studio, text frame.…

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