Multiple Columns

Word makes it easy to create newspaper-style columns for catalogs or other documents in which text flows continuously from one column to the next. If you’re doing a newsletter with a story that jumps from page 1 to page 4, for example, see Text Boxes for “Desktop Publishing” Effects.

Columns button

Click the Columns button, and then drag to highlight the number of columns you want. If you want to format only part of the document in columns—just the glossary, for example—select that text and then click the Columns button.

Create a banner heading   At the beginning of the leftmost column, type your heading and press ENTER. Select the heading, click the Columns button, and then select the single-column layout. See only one column?   Switch to page layout view or to print preview.

Create a “Document Within a Document”

You may have noticed the dotted section breaks (visible in normal view) that separate a banner heading from the multiple-column layout. In Word, you can use section breaks to create different layouts within the same document. For example, from section to section you can modify the margins, headers and footers, page numbers, page orientation, and so on.

Office Assistant button

Want to know more?   Look up Getting Results - Look of Document in Help.