When creating brochures or newsletters in Microsoft Word, a user chooses to use columnar text or to format existing text into columns. Microsoft Word includes a feature for creating a columnar page layout for a document. You can format text into columns using the automatic page and paragraph formatting tools in Word. Alternatively, you can create a two-cell or three-cell table if you want to have more control over the placement of your text within the cells.
Instructions
Format a Text Block into Columns in Word
1. Open the document to format in Microsoft Word.
2. Drag the cursor over the text to format into columns to select and highlight all applicable text.
3. Click the "Page Layout" option in the top navigation bar, and then click "Columns."
4. Click the number of columns into which you want to format the text -- for example, click "Two" to format the text into two columns.
Create a Two-Cell Table for Text in Word
5. Open the document to format in Microsoft Word.
6. Click the "Tables" option on the top navigation bar. The Table selector opens.
7. Drag the cursor over the top two cells and click inside the document. A two-cell table is inserted into the document.
8. Type your text into each cell in the table to create two columns.
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