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Thanks very much gmedina! That has solved my problem Now I have to get back to actually writting the paper

I read that too, and I have tired using the placement: \begin{figure}[h] blah blah blah.

However, again this does nothing

Hi,

I am trying to write my masters project in physics and I have come across a problem. I would like my abstract to span two columns, but the body of my document to be in two columns, so i have ended up using the multicol environment.

Now, I want to put a figure in which spans only one column ...