Column formatting (commonly referred to as "columns") is used not only in newspapers and magazines, but also in documents created using the Microsoft Office Word word processor. This program has a dedicated function for such formatting, which allows you to create the required number of columns on the pages and adjust their sizes.
Necessary
Word processor Microsoft Office Word 2007 or 2010
Instructions
Step 1
Load a document into Microsoft Word, the text of which needs to be reformatted into columns, and place the insertion cursor on the required page. If you want the entire content of the document to fit in columns, leave your cursor on the first page. It is only necessary to select some part of the text when splitting a limited fragment into columns, and if this option needs to be applied to entire pages, it is not necessary to do this.
Step 2
Go to the Page Layout tab and expand the Columns drop-down list in the Page Setup group of commands. It includes four column layouts, one to three equal-width columns, and two asymmetric two-column text. Select one of them or use the "Other Columns" item to access the settings for constructing an arbitrary partition.
Step 3
In the custom splitting settings window, set the required number of columns in the "Number of columns" field. By default, the width of the columns and the spaces between them will be set automatically, but you can change this setting and set the dimensions of each of them yourself. To do this, first uncheck the box "Columns of equal width". After that, editing the values in the "width" and "spacing" boxes for each column will become available - the corresponding table is placed above this checkbox. If you want to place a vertical bar between columns, check the Separator box.
Step 4
In the "Apply" drop-down list, select the scope of the specified column settings. You can set them for the selection, for the sections affected by the current selection, for the current page, the entire document, or from the current page to the end of the document. Depending on whether the text was selected before opening this dialog, some of the listed options may not appear in the list. When all the desired splitting settings are specified, click the OK button.
