On 3 Oct 96 06:13pm, Bob Sawyer wrote to George Williams:
 BS> However, when you get rolling in WP 5.1, you may want to
 BS> go to inches for your units. When you do, be sure that you
 BS> have selected a 6 by 9 paper size. Then when you choose 2
 BS> columns, WP will calculate and define them with defaults,
 BS> and all may go well. I can not be sure, because I still
 BS> do not understand what happened to your columns.
He's apparently defining the columns before selecting the paper
size.  Select 11x8.5 landscape paper, define columns, then kill
the 11x8.5 to revert to 8.5x11 and look at the result in view
document.  (Put a couple of lines of text in each column first.)
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