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What is COLGROUP in CSS 2.0

I want to flow text from column to column as I would do in a page layout program. I have been trying to understand the colgroup tag in CSS. What does this do. Points are given only if you can answer the following:
Is flow of text from column to column possible? 10 pts.
If yes, how is it done with or w/o style sheets? Provide a real example. 95 pts.
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it is not possible to flow a text from column to column. 'cause of this there's no real example ;-))

Full points s.v.p ;-))
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OK. But I'm not quite clear on why I would use colgroup? What is the purpose of doing what you provided over the traditional table as follows:
<table>
<tr>
<td>Cell 1</td>
<td>Cell 1</td>
<td>Cell 3</td>
</tr>
</table>
some browser have to read the whole table to determine the number of columns and then they will show the table. With colgroup you can define the number of columns and the browser will show the table without determining the number of columns ( it will be quicker and the the browser will show also parts of the table if the table is not loaded in full length )