<div dir="ltr">I do believe Uwe was asking for a screenshot of how it looks in MS Word, so we know exactly what you are looking for.<div><br></div><div>I am imagining it is something like this but I may be wrong:</div><div><br></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">--------------------------</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">| Title spanning columns |</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">--------------------------</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Column one | Column two </font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">text flows | text also</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">around ----------- flows</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">a box | TEXT | around</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">that | BOX | this</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">has ----------- box of</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">author info | text with</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">or other | info about </font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">metadata. | the piece.</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Of course, for the purposes of my rough example, disregard the poor justification [<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">(La)TeX can do a better job of it than me!] </span>and column/box separator lines I added for clarity. You may or may not want these lines in your articles. All the more reason that it would be good to see an image of what you are trying to re-create in TeX. :-)</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">PG</font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 January 2018 at 11:24, Jerry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jerry@seibercom.net" target="_blank">jerry@seibercom.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:35:01 +0100, Uwe Ziegenhagen stated:<br>
<span class=""><br>
>Can you send a small picture or screenshot?<br>
<br>
</span>I don't know what good a screen shot would do since I cannot get it to work.<br>
It is just an article title that spans 2 columns and then two columns of text<br>
underneath. I want to place a text box centered between the two columns<br>
approximately one inch below the start of the article text. The text in the<br>
columns must flow around the text box. I can do this easily in MS Word, but I<br>
cannot figure out how to accomplish it it LaTeX.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
--<br>
Jerry<br>
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