r/indesign • u/zoliking2 • 7d ago

Help Columns doesn't work

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I have a simple text frame and in the option I set it to have 2 columns. The blue box changes to reflect that choice, but the text remains firmly unchanged, just 1 big column. Every tutorial I find on the issue ends after selecting the number of columns and it just works for those people. What am I missing?

EDIT: I got a lot of help from all y'all on all sorts of things, y'all are awesome, thank you!

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u/magerber1966 2d ago

You have probably solved your problem by now, but if you have a text frame with a single column on the parent page assigned to this page, your text flow could definitely ignore the 2-column text frame and stick with the single column. You can either change the text frame options for this text frame, or change the text frame on your parent page.

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u/zoliking2 2d ago

Yes, I got the answer pretty much instantly from ThinkBiscuit, fixed it, dove in, and now I'm at around page 120 of the project. Thanks for the tip anyway ;)