You can link and get an auto-layout for a whole article at once.

1.Press and hold SHIFT while dragging an article from Navigator on the empty space on page.

2.When prompted, select over how many number of columns you want to spread the article.

Fred4 applies a sample auto-layout on the article and links the article to page. If the article contains one or more images, the first image is laid out automatically, and other images are ignored. You can paginate them manually later on.