You may have to remove the Soft Group to make adjustments, but one tip is that holding Ctrl when you do a click will select an item ‘inside a group’ (this applies generally), which is a quick way to make changes to items in groups without having to un-group. Soft Groups typically have things on other layers in the group. Soft Groups are a way in which objects, such as photos and captions (see above) stick together. Using the Page & Layer Gallery just unlock those layers, make the required changes, and lock the layer again. But sometimes you will have no option but to un-group, re-position or edit each of the component elements as required, then group it again. If you use the right side handle to resize the group it tries to be smart and retain the relative proportions and positions of the objects, and not squash the contents (as older versions of Xara did).
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You might want to adjust the column width again, and to move the set of tiny anchored images to be in a more suitable place. This has ‘push’ set so just dragging it down and dropping it below the first column will make the page grow. The second part of the work is to move the right column (with its anchored photos) below.
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For the left column I just made it wider to cover the full width of the mobile page.
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The first step is to move the right column off the page temporarily, so I can work on the left.