Using Breaks and Columns

Name: Using Breaks and Columns
Author: Eric Andal

Discover how you can use breaks and columns in this course.

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In this lesson, you will learn about using columns to organize documents. Here, in this Microsoft Word document, let's add some text. So I'm gonna copy some text here, and I'm gonna go ahead and paste it. So here we have our text. Next, what we're going to want to do is add some stock photos, so I'm going to add a few stock photos in here, maybe about two of them. I'm gonna go to Insert, Pictures, Stock Images. I'm gonna choose a stock image here. I'm going to include another one. Do the same thing. Okay. So, we have some stock photos here, and let's say this is everything we wanted to include in this document. Right now, it's informative, but it might be a little hard to read, especially when you imagine that the text and the pictures start to build up onto more and more pages. Well, let's take a look at how we can better organize that using documents. First, we're going to click on the Layout ribbon. Scroll back to the top. I'm going to click on Columns, and here we see we have different types of columns by default. One, two, three, left and right, and then more columns. First, let's take a look at what one column would look like. Well, of course, this is one column by default. Now, if we click on two, I'm going to select everything, and I'm gonna click on two. Now, we see that information is being separated into two columns, and we can go even further. So, three, even left columns. So we see that we have a column that's on the left side or the right side. And of course, we can do things like reduce the picture size to improve the readability. We do the same thing here. Sort of so on and so forth. Now, if we want more columns, what we can do is click on More Columns. And here we see our default options and we can actually add more columns than what's already set in the default options. We can also change width and spacing. So, in column one, column two, and however many columns we define, as well as change the width and change the spacing. And we can apply it to either selected texts, selected sections, or whole document. So we see how powerful the options that we have are available when creating columns to make readability a priority in our documents. Thanks for watching. Stay tuned for the next lesson.

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Course Description

Creating documents affords you the option of incorporating rich text, media, tables, charts, graphs, and more. But the overuse of these different sources of information can also create unwanted clutter. Fortunately, several solutions are at your disposal—Microsoft Word allows for multiple ways to organize your text, pictures, tables, and more. In these lessons, you will learn how to fully utilize columns to keep your documents from getting disorganized and how to take advantage of multiple types of breaks to improve the visual flow of your documents.

What You'll Learn

Recognize and utilize columns to organize documents in Microsoft Word
Recognize and utilize multiple types of breaks to improve document flow
Organize document content using columns and breaks
Apply columns and breaks together to structure text, pictures, and tables
Use columns to keep documents from getting disorganized

Key Takeaways

Microsoft Word offers multiple ways to organize text, pictures, tables, and other content within a document.
Columns help keep documents from becoming disorganized when they include rich text, media, tables, charts, and graphs.
Multiple types of breaks can be used to improve the visual flow of a document.
Columns and breaks can be applied together to better organize and structure a document.

Frequently Asked Questions

What will I learn in this course?

You will learn how to fully utilize columns to keep your documents from getting disorganized and how to take advantage of multiple types of breaks to improve the visual flow of your documents, including using columns and breaks together.

What topics do the lessons cover?

The lessons cover Using Columns to Organize Documents, Using Breaks to Improve Document Flow, and Using Columns and Breaks Together.

What skills does this course help develop?

It supports skills in Microsoft Word, Word Processing, Document Formatting, Document Preparations, Structured Text, and Word VBA.

Why are columns and breaks useful in a document?

Documents can incorporate rich text, media, tables, charts, graphs, and more, but overuse of these can create unwanted clutter; columns help keep documents organized and breaks help improve their visual flow.