Borders on text boxes help keep different articles separate, and can set off sidebar articles from the rest of the page. To change a text box border, select it, double click its edge and choose the Colors and Lines tab in the Format Auto Shape dialog box. You can change the footer border, or add one to the header by clicking Headers and Footers on the View menu and then clicking Borders and Shading on the Format menu. Page 2 Top of Page layout view, click at the end of the columns you want to balance. On the Insert menu, click Break.
Word inserts a continuous section break, which balances the text equally among the columns.
If you want to force a new page to start after the balanced columns, click after the continuous section break and then insert a manual page break. If your document is divided into sections, click in the section or select multiple sections you want to change. Choose Columns from the Format menu, and then click One. Your By-line Some of the articles in this newsletter were created using linked text boxes, which allow articles to flow continuously across pages. When you add lines of words to a text box, the words in the following text box flow forward.