Reply To: Split columns

I can see from the invisible items in the pictures that the individual lines of items 6, 7 and 8 use pararaphs to separate the lines. Items 3, 4, 5 only have one paragraph mark per item, while 6, 7, 8 have three per item. Does the column splitter rely on paragraph marks to work? What happens if you use “new line” instead of “paragraph”?

Another thought, would text to table help in this context, where you can specify row and column break points?

PS I don't have CS5 to try it out.

PPS Just tried with new line instead of para for new lines within an item, and paragraph between items.

Then using text to table, row separator=paragraph, column separator=paragraph, total columns=3 you get a table of 3 columns, split where you want it, with the “vertical” items 6, 7, 8 remaining vertical.