To add columns to existing text

1. Select the text.

2. Click the Menu button wpj00004.gif on the Common toolbar.

3. Click Format, Columns.

4. Do one of the following:

wpj00001.gif Choose the number of columns that you want to add to your document from the Columns flyout.

wpj00001.gif Click Define to specify the number of columns that you want to add to your document in the Columns dialog box.

Notes

wpj00001.gif Column width is adjusted automatically according to the number of columns and spacing values that you set in the Columns dialog box.

wpj00001.gif The value that you type in the Column Spacing box in the Columns dialog box represents the amount of space that appears between each column in your document.

wpj00001.gif In newspaper columns, text flows down a column from left to right. At the end of the page, text automatically scrolls to the top of the next column.

Tip

wpj00001.gif You can press CTRL + ENTER in a column to insert a column break.

wpj00003.gif How to

To format a document with columns

To remove columns

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Creating newspaper columns