Kelly discussions. Very Helpful information not found in the Help menu of the program. Thank you!!! If you're referring to the keyboard shortcut, you can find a list of all of them in the Help topic "Keyboard shortcuts.
Stefan Blom. I just found it on-line. Usually you let Word flow the text into the next column, though or make use of a table. He is president of Sharon Parq Associates , a computer and publishing services company. Learn more about Allen When creating macros, it is helpful to know what is going on within the macro itself in case an error crops up. If you have a range of numeric values in your worksheet, you may want to change them from numbers to text values.
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Check out Word For Dummies today! You can use the Columns tool, available on the Page Layout or Layout tab depending on which version of Word you are If you need to change the number of columns used in a portion of your document, it's easy to do when you use the Columns Do you need a page layout that features columns that progress vertically across pages instead of horizontally across a Enter your address and click "Subscribe.
Your e-mail address is not shared with anyone, ever. Maximum image size is 6Mpixels. Images larger than px wide or px tall will be reduced. Up to three images may be included in a comment. All images are subject to review. So if you want to format text with columns in Microsoft Word documents, here's what you need to know:. Everything starts from the Layout tab known as Page Layout in versions on the Ribbon:.
Click on More Columns , and you're taken to a dialog box that allows you to set up your columns exactly the way you want them. The default is one column — just a regular document. You can use one of the presets the two-column layout is useful for the service list application I mentioned above. Or you can customize it within an inch of its life. Space between columns 1 and 2, or 2 and 3, or? How about a line between them like a newsletter would have? You decide! If you don't want your columns to all be the same width, be sure to uncheck the "Equal column width" checkbox at the bottom of the dialog box.
Then, you'll be able to customize the width of each column separately. Once you've set up your columns, you come to the tricky part. This is part of the reason I usually opt for tables rather than columns. If you use tables, moving between the cells is easy — just use the Tab key. To insert a column, however, you need to know a few tricks.
Say you're typing in the first column of your document and you want to end that column there and start typing in the second column.
To do that, you have to insert a column break. You can insert a column break in one of two ways:. Personally, I'd go with Option 1 assuming I remember the key combination in the heat of the moment.
Once you've inserted a column break, your cursor is in the next column, ready for you to type. When you insert a column break in your last column the one farthest to the right , the cursor will go to the first column on the next page. To me, it's tough to work with columns or tables, for that matter if I can't really see them.
To turn on the column boundaries so you can see your columns laid out on the page, go to the File tab or click the Office button in version and click Options , then go to Advanced and check the box next to Show text boundaries :.
If you choose This Point Forward , that will allow you to insert columns at the point your cursor is sitting in. Once you've inserted your columnar data, then go back to the Format Columns dialog box and choose the One Column format being careful to once again choose This Point Forward in that bottom drop-down , and your document will return to the single-column format without disturbing the multi-column insertion you've just worked so hard on.
But what if you want to insert a two- or three- or more- column block of text into the middle of a one-column, normal document? You may want to use a slightly different procedure, depending on whether you're creating a brand-new document or you're inserting a multi-column layout into the middle of an existing single-column document.
You're using the same dialog box, but if you're editing an existing document and placing a multi-column layout in the middle, you'll need to take a couple of extra precautions to ensure you don't inadvertently create a formatting nightmare. Let's say you're typing along in a brand-new document and decide that the next bit of text needs to be in two or more columns.
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