Introduction to Word Animation Tutorial 126: Columns

In layout planning, you can use page Setup directly to columns the page (see "Getting Started with Word animation 22"). If you need columns during document editing, it is easier to use the columns button or the Columns dialog box. Let's take a look at some of the text columns in the document to see how they are used.

First, use the "column" button

1. Perform "view" → "toolbars" → "Other formats" to display the "other Formatting" toolbar.

2. Select the contents of the document to be columns. If nothing is selected, the entire document is divided into columns.

3. Click the Columns button on the other Formatting toolbar, hold down the left mouse button and drag to the right to the number of columns you want to release the left button. In normal view, a document inserts a contiguous section break only before and after the selection, but you see the actual column effect in print layout view.

4. This method is to get the equal width of the columns, to change the width of the columns, you can use the horizontal ruler in the page view to adjust.

Second, use the Columns dialog box

1. Select the contents of the document to be columns.

2. Perform "format" → "columns" To open the Columns dialog box.

3. If necessary, select the style in the preset box, or set the number of columns directly in the Number of columns box. By default, column widths are equal when you set the number of columns, and if you want to adjust their width, you can deselect the "column width equal" option, and then fine-tune the column spacing for columns. In the lower-right corner, you can preview the effect after setting.

4. Relative to this example, the Applies to box automatically appears as selected text. You can also select a different scope by clicking the Drop-down button. Depending on whether the document is divided into sections, or not, the secondary list options are slightly different, with selected text, entire document, after insertion point, selected sections, this section, and so on.

5. In addition, there is a "separator" option in the dialog box, which can be separated by inserting a line between columns.

6. Click "OK" button.

The animation of the specific operation process is as follows:

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