Several times you have observed that some articles or text documents divided into columns on the same page which looks nice, and if you want to apply the same settings on your Microsoft Word 2007 or Word 2010 document then how you can do that?
So, here is the method to create columns in Word 2007 / 2010 document. Just continue reading below to know the complete process to create columns in Word.

How to create columns in Word 2010 or 2007

Step 1

Open an existing Word document or create a new document in Microsoft Word 2010 or 2007

Step 2

Just type your text in that file whatever you want. Now there are two options either you want to apply columns to whole document or to a specific portion of document.

Create two columns whole Word document.

Click on “Page Layout” tab > “Columns” and select the number of columns according to your requirement

Output: 2 columns in word.

Create columns on one page or portion of text in word document

Select the text of one page or specific portion that you want to convert to columns and click on  “Page Layout” tab > “Columns” and select the number of columns as show below in screen shot.

Output: 3 Columns of specific text of word document

See also:
how to adjust width, Spacing and put line between columns in Word