I know of at least one user-me-who regularly misses the feature.) (Side-by-side paragraphs were a great feature in Word for DOS. This was, perhaps, the closest to WordPerfect's parallel columns. Those who have been with Word since the DOS days may remember the old side-by-side paragraphs that could be used. There is no equivalent to this in the Word world. When the bottom of the first column is reached on the first page, WordPerfect continues with the text at the top of the first column on the second page. Essentially, the columns are independent from each other, and are nothing more than a way to present side-by-side (parallel) text. In a layout with two parallel columns, covering the same three pages, text would not wrap from the first column to the second on each page. The parallel columns behavior is different, however.
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This is the same way that text "flows" in a newspaper, so WordPerfect referred to this layout as newspaper columns. Columns are filled left to right, page by page. When the bottom of that column is reached, text begins at the top of the first column on the second page, and so on. When the text reaches the bottom margin of the first page, the text continues at the top of the second column on the first page.
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Text begins in the first column of the first page. For instance, imagine that you have a two-column layout in a three-page document. WordPerfect's newspaper columns are essentially the same as the columns feature in Word. The difference between the two is how they behave in relation to a printed page. Those who never used WordPerfect, of course, may not even know what is meant by the phrase "parallel columns." In WordPerfect there are two types of columns you can create: newspaper columns and parallel columns.
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Those coming to Word from WordPerfect may long for a way to create parallel columns, as could be done in WordPerfect.