Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

Microsoft Word quickly converts columns to a table when you apply the "Insert" ribbon command and then select the "Convert Text to Table" option. To help you format the columns, Word displays the ...

I’ve heard from some readers who have asked about creating columns in a Microsoft Word document. Well, there are four basic types of columns that I refer to as “Book,” “Newspaper,” “Table” and “Tabbed ...

Microsoft Word comes with a feature that lets you create the newsletter or newspaper-style columns in the entire document. Converting your document into multiple columns not only gives it a ...

Word's columns feature lets you take charge of your page layouts and compare blocks of text or images. The column settings can be quickly applied and then removed again, when they are no longer needed ...

How do I… Even up columns in a Word document? Your email has been sent Balancing columns in a document is not a monumental task, yet there's a trick to it that few ...

Dennis Reilly at CNET's Workers' Edge blog notes that when you've got a whole bunch of text you want people to get through, a two-column layout, with or without titled headers, makes the reading go ...