Template formatting

Yes the document does have columns.

If you click on the bold Pi symbol on the Home group it will show all of the non-printing and formatting characters; the carriage returns show as the same Pi symbol and you will see where the column and section breaks are inserted.

The black blocks on the last page were presumably some formatting but have been converted to Shapes when converting from PDF, you can select them and delete with no impact elsewhere.

The logo at the top left, to select it I found I had to click very close to the bottom edge, in the text part of it, once selected it can be deleted. Then copy the new logo and put the cursor at the start of the document before pasting it in place. This will put it alongside the header rather than across to the left, while still selected there will be an options button to the right of it to determine how it is placed with text; choose Square, the top left of the six options, and it moves to the left above the left hand column.

The formatting for the left hand column has been converted to a shape as well.

Could you pls reattach the doc with the changes?

Attached
EE-sample-Governor-Newsletter---1-.docx

Thanks.

A few questions:
1. With the Pi symbol activated, what is the horizontal line at the top of the page under the header which cannot be clicked on?  It says section break (continuous), what is that and what does it mean and how is it created and what is it used for normally?

2. How exactly do you identify columns in this document?  For example, the area under "who are the governors", is not a set of two columns for the list of names right?  That's simply just tabbed data fields?

3. Is using columns the best way to control a news letter if I wanted to put images in there and stop it bouncing around the screen?

4. What does the anchor symbol mean under the school logo?

Hi Rob - any thoughts on this?

Apologies, I have been offline for a few days.

Although I have been able to help with the formatting of that specific document, I am aware that there are better experts on here that can answer your questions more thoroughly but I will have a go.

1. Section Break - a section break is often used in longer documents to indicate a point in a document where there is a natural break; eg Chapters in a book. The section break can also be used where a change in formatting is required for a specific page, eg if a document needs to include an image of a chart for example and the chart looks better on a page in landscape orientation; the section break could be used to break the document, format the following page as landscape and then another section break after which the page is then formatted as portrait again.
2. Identify columns - in addition to seeing the "Column Break" annotation when formatting markers are activated (Pi symbol), you can also see where columns are if you activate the ruler on the View tab. This shows where the column boundaries are and will show the tab stops of the column in which the cursor is currently located.
3. Use of columns - columns can be useful in this scenario so that you can have text with different alignments (vertically or horizontally). I have also seen the use of tables but these tend to make the document have an appearance of rows, affecting the vertical alignment. Is it the best way? That is probably subjective but I believe the Column formatting is intended for this purpose, to enable the appearance like newspaper columns.
4. Anchor symbol - this indicates where the logo is anchored within the text. Don't know what effect moving it has; I believe it is related to the way the text behaves around the logo which is determined by the options button at the top right of the logo when it is selected.