Word 2019 For Dummies

Chapter 20

Columns of Text

IN THIS CHAPTER

Understanding columns

Breaking your text into columns

Creating a three-column brochure

Returning to one-column text

Switching column layouts in a document

Breaking up a column on a page

If someone asks about columns and you immediately think of something written in a magazine or newspaper, you’re a writer. If you think Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian, you’re a history nerd. And if you think of rows of marching soldiers or rolling tanks, you’re a military buff. What you probably don’t think of are columns of text in a document, despite Word sporting such a clever formatting tool.

All about Columns

You probably don’t think of a document’s text as being formatted into a column, but it is. Word places all text on a page into columns. It’s just that when you see only a single column of text, you don’t think of it as anything odd – until you want ...