Multiple Columns in Microsoft Word

Columns are great way to present certain types of information like lists and news articles

• Improves readability

• Helps in page layout

Sometimes the content we keep is best way displaying them in columns

• Information like lists and news articles

For columns section

 Go to Page Layout menu then in page setup tab you can find columns section see above picture 

Clicking columns drop list you can find default one column option selected

By choosing two column layout 

Left layout has two columns with narrow column on left

Right Layout is mirror image of left layout with narrow column on right

There is an availability to keep more than three columns when using landscape mode

By clicking on more columns a pop up opens asking for width of columns and spacing in between

After specifying width and spacing for columns there is an option for applying changes based on requirement 

When columns are created adding content makes it evenly distributed on both sides

Place the cursor where you want to stop the column distribution, then break

After applying column break and adding text in narrow column