Thanks wildwood, I don't think we're talking about quite the same thing yet! I'm trying to find out how to start from an already typed-up A4 portrait page, and get Word to SHRINK it down to the A5 size of one column of an A4 landscape page divided into two columns. Yes, sure, if I start in the two-column landscape page, I can type everything up afresh, but I would have to use font sizes and paragraph spaces all scaled down to 70% of what they were in the original document. So it's the automated scaling-down that I'm trying to latch onto - copy and paste doesn't alter the font sizes etc.