Chapter 20
Columns of Text
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding columns
Breaking 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 a review written in a magazine or grizzled newspaper reporter, you’re a reader. 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
Here’s a shocker: All Word documents have a column format. Even when you fail to see it, a page of text in Word is formatted as a single column of text. Otherwise, the only time you notice the column format is when you cleave a document’s ...
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