1. Select the text.
2. Click the Menu button on the Common toolbar.
3. Click Format, Columns.
4. Do one of the following:
Choose the number of columns that you want to add to your document from the
Columns flyout.
Click Define to specify the number of columns that you want to add to your
document in the Columns dialog box.
Notes
Column width is adjusted automatically according to the number of columns and
spacing values that you set in the Columns dialog box.
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.
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
You can press CTRL + ENTER in a column to insert a column break.
How to
To format a document with columns
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