How to Add Columns to a Microsoft Word Document

Series Summary

Microsoft Word is a word processing program first released in 1983 as Multi-Tool Word. Over the years, it has developed into Microsoft Office Word as part of the Microsoft Office suite of programs. Several versions have been released since, culminating in the most recent Word 2007 for Windows and Word 2008 for Mac OS X. In this free video series on computer programs, a computer consultant offers a tutorial for using Microsoft Word. Find out how to create mail merge documents, and get tips on creating a Web page as a Word document. Learn to use different formatting techniques for creating letters and columns, and discover how easy it is to adjust page margins, line spacing and fonts. Make the most of Microsoft Word with this free tutorial.

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Kyle Parker, on behalf of Expert Village, and I'm going to be showing you how to add columns, to a Microsoft Word document. In order to do so, you'll have to open up Microsoft Word, and create a new document, by clicking on here, and then you'll get a new blank document, and then I have pasted some text, from a news site in, to illustrate this. You can paste obviously, any text you'd like, and then in order to start formatting your text into separate columns, you'll simply need to go up here, to your toolbar, and click on Columns, and then you'll see these four things pop up here, which will allow you to separate your documents text, into one to four columns. If you were to move your mouse past this, you can even separate it out into five, six columns. We'll simply start with two, to show you how that looks, so once you click on that, your text in the document, will be separated by margins, here at the top. The text will then continue onto the next page, in these columns as well, so you'll see that the text continues on from here, and then goes over to this column down here, and then continues on. If you would like to change the columns, you can go back up here,and then separate it into three, or four, or five columns, if you wish, and you can even modify these columns, by going up to your margin at the top, and resizing them. You can do that for each column, by just simply clicking on the edge, and moving it over, and that's how you create columns."