Add Columns in Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word or MS Word (often called word) is a graphical word processing program by Microsoft Corporation. The purpose of MS Word is to allow the users to type and save documents. Similar to other word processors, it has various helpful tools to make documents. 

Sometimes the information you include in your document is best displayed in columns. Not only can columns help improve readability, but some types of documents—like newspaper articles, newsletters, and flyers—are often written in column format. Word also allows you to adjust your columns by adding column breaks.

Page Columns

Columns are used in many types of document articles, they are commonly used in newspapers, magazines, and newsletters. Columns are also used in our NCERT Textbooks. In this article, we will learn how to insert columns into a document and create column breaks.  

Inserting columns

Columns and column breaks can improve your document’s organization and increase its readability. They also allow you to utilize all of the available space on the page.

Steps to Add Columns:

Step 1: Select the text you want to format.

Step 2: Click the Page Layout menu tab.

Step 3: Click the columns command. A drop-down menu will appear (as mentioned below).

Step 4: Select the number of columns you want to insert. The text will then format into columns.

Note: If you want to remove the columns, click the columns command and select one for the number of columns.