If you have InDesign CS5, and you have the text frame below…
…you can use the new “Split Columns” feature to make the body text split into 2 columns, like so:
But unfortunately when you use the Split Columns feature, InDesign ignores any Keep Options that are applied to the text. In the example above, I have these keep options applied to the body text:
Note that the highlighted paragraph isn’t been kept together within a column as it should. Hopefully, this will be fixed in a future release. But in the meantime, here’s a workaround that will work in some situations.
For a situation like this, instead of using a single column frame that contains body text that is split into two columns, use a two column frame that has the headline set to “Span 2 Columns”.
Now the Keep Options are preserved for the body text.
This article was last modified on December 21, 2021
This article was first published on June 21, 2011
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Note that this was fixed in a later version of InDesign. Keep All Lines Together works now.
Although that is a good solution it poses another issue, when text reflows, the Heading spanning two columns won’t Keep with the next frame.
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