Presenting Information in Columns and Tables

To format text in multiple columns

  • Select the text. Then on the Page Layout tab, in the Page Setup group, click the Columns button, and click the number of columns you want.

To change the width of columns

  1. Click anywhere in the first column. Then on the Page Layout tab, in the Page Setup group, click the Columns button, and then click More Columns.

  2. Under Width and spacing, change the setting in the Width column or the Spacing column, and then click OK.

To hyphenate text automatically

  • On the Page Layout tab, ...

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