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Columns In A Word Document.
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How do I create columns in a Word document please?
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Try this . . . it also includes pictures of how do do it.
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You haven't been specific about the type of columns you want OG. Do you want the sort where you can put something in 1 column (eg, a question) and have a column alongside where text (eg, an answer) goes? Or do you want newspaper columns, where the text on the page splits into 2 columns; when column 1 is full the text spills into column 2? If it's the former a table is the simple answer; if it's the latter look up "newspaper columns" in Word help.
The columns look after themselves OG, just like the lines on a page (you don't do "return" at the end of a line when you're typing, the computer takes care of it). In the same way the computer takes care of newspaper columns by moving to the top of a new column when you reach the bottom of the current one. Thus, if you insert a new address part-way down a column, the rest of the addresses will move down and the bottom one will move to the top of the next column.
Yes but as you have already said if you get down towards the bottom of one column and you have only typed the first two lines of that address, can you start that same address at the top of the next column, and then delete that first part of the address at the bottom.
Sorry but I have never tried this before, it is a Christmas list of addresses that I need to pass on to another person.
Sorry but I have never tried this before, it is a Christmas list of addresses that I need to pass on to another person.
No, bcause as soon as you delete the 2 lines at the bottom of the first column the computer will move two lines from the second column to replace them, so you're back where you started.
I guess (because I don't use newspaper columns it's only a guess) that you can "block" an address, then go into format > paragraph and "keep lines together", just like you can to stop it splitting a normal paragraph over two pages. That way, if an address is going to start in one column and finish in the next, the whole address will appear in the second column. Compare it to adding the word in the middle of a line in normal typing - the whole of the word at the end of the line will be moved onto the next line, which may cause the last word on the second line to be moved etc. Blocking a few lines and telling the computer to "keep lines together" is the equivalent of making them one entity which can't be split.
I guess (because I don't use newspaper columns it's only a guess) that you can "block" an address, then go into format > paragraph and "keep lines together", just like you can to stop it splitting a normal paragraph over two pages. That way, if an address is going to start in one column and finish in the next, the whole address will appear in the second column. Compare it to adding the word in the middle of a line in normal typing - the whole of the word at the end of the line will be moved onto the next line, which may cause the last word on the second line to be moved etc. Blocking a few lines and telling the computer to "keep lines together" is the equivalent of making them one entity which can't be split.
