>I *could* do seperate vertical lines and one horizontal line, but figured there's gotta be a way to do it with a box. I could be wrong, but it seems as though there's gotta be a much easier way to put a box around a column.


You'd THINK!!

I've never used columns in the way you are (presumably cf. newspaper continuous columns) and I've always got on famously with vert. lines. I don't see what's inellegant or difficult about the concept.

But .. suit yourself.