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Brilliant, Nicola!

This was exactly the solution I needed.

I was still having some issues with words running beyond the width of the columns, but I even found a fix to that. Instead of your suggested \documentclass{article} I changed your code to \documentclass[twocolumn]{article}. Now ...

Nicola,

This is a promising solution! Now how do I work with full page-width tables (see the image)? Also, this is causing issues with text not staying inside the column, as shown here:
Thoughts?
Chad

I don't know if we're zeroing in on a solution or getting further from it. Minipages won't float--they are placed exactly where they lie in the text. I suspect that the the \onecolumn and \twocolumn route still may be best for my article because multicols won't allow single-column floats. Manually ...

How about single-column floats?

Hi Thorsten,

Thank you for your response. Unfortunately, your suggested change results in a warning that floats are not allowed inside a multicols environment. My figures and floats are handled beautifully when I use the \onecolumn and \twocolumn combination, whereas I'd have to exit the multicols ...

Howdy,

I have a \documentclass[twocolumn]{article} that I'm using with pdflatex. The top half of the first page needs to be a single column. I have achieved this by \onecolumn. The bottom half of the first page and the rest of the document should be two columns. This is accomplished with the ...