Columns in Pages

[Feng]

I have recently started with the Microsoft Word and I am just having the basic knowledge of it. I have given an assignment in which I have to add the column in pages. I know how to add the column in table but don't know how to add it in the pages without adding the table.!! I am expecting some needful help from your side as soon as possible. It would be grateful if you provide any other information which can be useful for me in Word.

[Eric B]

Search the Word toolbar button 'Columns' and click it. You will see that a small table with four columns. Move your mouse over these columns and click the left mouse button on the number of columns you want (for example 4). This is the easiest way to apply easily newspaper columns. Try to write and watch what you write has a small area of the sheet (first column). Until this column is not completely filled (to reach the bottom), do not start writing the second column. You should fill the entire sheet to see the four columns written.

[Glenny]

Even I think that the process mentioned by the 'Eric B' is the easiest. This is a simple way to start writing in columns, but there is a more comprehensive one that gives us more options: Click on the Format menu and then on Columns. In the window that appears look just at the beginning you have five boxes to indicate your columns several predefined formats: One, Two, Three, Left and Right. The first three simply indicate a number of columns and the last two are special because they are activated by two columns, but one of the two is bigger than the other (left or right, whichever selected). Try either of these options, but to see the result on the screen, you should write a long text (any will do).

[JonathanD]

You should know about the 'Number of columns'. This box allows us to indicate how many columns you want displayed (up to eleven columns on a sheet of A4 size vertical). If you select this option and put many columns, you'll see that they become very narrow. The next box 'Width and Space', is an option that allows us to define exactly how wide each column will have and what we want to leave space between each one of them. Normally we will not touch these values, and that automatically adjust, but there are times when we are interested in reducing the space between each column, to make better the sheet (if it does not come through text on the same sheet , for example).

[Macarenas]

Another interesting section is the one that says 'Line between columns'. When you activate this box are vertical lines dividing the columns you have on screen. Bottom right of the column you a preview to see how would the columns in the sheet. Word gives us the possibility of using different types of paper: Landscape, envelopes, etc.. We can even specify custom paper sizes.
To change the paper type following the steps :

1. Select the File menu
2. Select Page Setup
3. Select Paper Size

[wllwnn]

An easy way to access the margins is to use the menu option File, then Page Setup. A small window. On top of this window are the words: Margins, Paper Size, Paper Source and Page Layout. If you click on these words (one at a time) you will see how active each sheet to be putting up the rest. Each sheet gives us access to a number of different options. We must activate the first (Banks) and the one that interests us now. Once activated, notice that you have access to outside options: Top, Bottom, Left and Right.

[Tweaker]

If you select Normal format, check unseen and margins or the edge of the sheet of paper, just the whole window is white and leaves in what you write. This view of a text in Word is recommended if you have a computer feel old (less than a Pentium, for example), if not better page layout. If you click the left mouse button you'll see that there is a different presentation. This presentation is not for you to write on paper normally, but it is to see how would the text by the printer without having to waste paper. Notice that the paper appears in small, if you have something written, probably will not be able to read, unless you have a large monitor (17 inches or more.) This view of the leaf is not to be able to read or write, but to take a look.