Word 2007 Is Crushing My Dreams.

My latest idea is a murder mystery split between two close characters. The novel is likewise split, with each page divided between their two perspectives in real time.

I've encountered a problem, though: I do not know how to split a Word 2007 page in two. I can change the formatting so that there are two columns, but these columns are still linked (that is, my overlap from the first column will go onto the second.

Does anyone know how to solve this? What would be really fantastic is a Word template where the pages are two columns (independent of each other) with a separating line down the center.

Could you have two separate documents, open them both and then resize the windows so that each one takes up half of the screen?

You can use the full screen reading view. Click on view on your menu bar, and then full screen reading view. There ya go. Now you can have both at the same time.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13880_3-10015070-68.html

http://www.cybertext.com.au/Columns_in_Word.pdf
These links may help, I've tried it and works perfectly. I hope this is what you meant!

Here's what I think might work. Go into word and do the two columns and mark to have them separated by a line. Then when you're typing in one column and are about to spill over, go into the page layout, go up to breaks, and do a next page break. That will get your left hand column all lined up, but I'm not sure about the right . . .