Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

The columns feature built into Word enables you to vary the layouts of your documents, but if something goes wrong then it can be difficult to get the end result you want. Switching on hidden ...

A number of readers have asked how to divide text into columns within Microsoft Word. Well, there are four basic column types that I call “Book,” “Newspaper,” “Table” and “Tabbed.” Book columns are ...

Microsoft Word quickly converts columns to a table when you apply the "Insert" ribbon command and then select the "Convert Text to Table" option. To help you format the columns, Word displays the ...

Microsoft Word comes with a feature that lets you create the newsletter or newspaper-style columns in the entire document. Converting your document into multiple columns not only gives it a ...

A fast way to center a heading across Word columns Your email has been sent Don't wrestle with column width and alignment formats when you want to add a title above multi-column text. This trick lets ...

Use Word’s Replace to transpose a column of names Your email has been sent Transposing a list of names is a fairly easy task for Word's Replace feature. Susan Harkins shows you how it works. You’ll ...

Dennis Reilly at CNET's Workers' Edge blog notes that when you've got a whole bunch of text you want people to get through, a two-column layout, with or without titled headers, makes the reading go ...