Columns In A Word Document.

[anotheoldgit]

How do I create columns in a Word document please?

[andrew1707]

You could create a big table that has the number of columns you need

[CrapAtCryptics]

If you dont want to see the lines you can always turn some or all of them off.

[anotheoldgit]

How please.

[anotheoldgit]

There are no lines in a Word document.

[Shenco]

Try importing a table.
Would using excel spreadsheet suit your needs better.
Or pehaps cut and paste a section of a spreadsheet into word.
If necessary, check out YouTube, it's a great resource. Good Luck.

[DTCwordfan]

top bar and go to Table....and go from there, aog

[Flonska]

Try this . . . it also includes pictures of how do do it.

https://www.wikihow.com/Add-Columns-in-Microsoft-Word

[mccfluff]

if you go to page layout, you will see a tab called columns, just select the number you need

[bhg481]

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.

[fiction-factory]

This seems such a straightforward matter (insert, table, select number of colums and rows; or Layout, colums) in Word that maybe we are misunderstanding what is wanted here. Do these suggestions enable you to do what you need AOG or have we misunderstood?

[fiction-factory]

Can't believe the n didn't appear on two occasions in "columns"

[Prudie]

It does depend what you want it for but if it's for text in columns like an old newspaper then mccfluff has given you the easy answer.

[anotheoldgit]

Thank you all for your answers.

I needed it to print a list of addresses, so perhaps the newspaper type would be better don't you think?

[bhg481]

You will just have to be careful that the last address of a column stays in one column. You should be able to block the address and use Formatting to make all the lines of an address stay in the same column.

[bhg481]

Having replied to you. I must say that I use a table for addresses. Three columns wide and an address in each cell.

[anotheoldgit]

Could I just ignore the small blanc space at the bottom of one column and start another column?

[davegosling]

Yes, or no, depending on what you're trying to do!

Is this some sort of mailmerge activity?

[bhg481]

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.

[anotheoldgit]

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.

[bhg481]

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.