Formatting and working with columns

In Word we have the ability to make columns, as this can improve the readability of a document.

Columns:

• select the text you want to put in columns
• Click on the “Coloumns” button in the toolbar. 
• select the number of columns you wish to have.

Word automatically switches the “Page View”, to “Normal View”, you can see the columns next to each other, but not under each other.

Remove columns:

• place the cursor anywhere in the columns
• click on the Columns in the toolbar.
• select 1 column

To Divide a specific paragraph in columns

• Click on Format in the toolbar
• Choose ‘columns’
• In the dialog box you can include the number, width, the space between the columns and whether or not they need to be separated by a line or not.

You can always see an example in the “Preview” of the dialog box.

To further improve the result you can use the mouse pointer to adjust the width of the columns:

• place the cursor in the appropriate columns
• a column marker appears in the ruler
• place the cursor in the marked coloumn so that it turns into an arrow
• click and drag the column marker to the desired location

 

 

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