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Put text into columns

Put text into columns

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Put text into columns

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- [Instructor] When reading articles in a newspaper or a magazine, you may have noticed quite often the text is put into multiple columns. There's a reason for that beyond visual appearance. When you're reading longer articles, your eyes need to travel from left to right, left to right, and down the page. By placing text into smaller columns, your eyes don't need to travel as far from left to right. It prevents eye strain and allows you to read for longer periods of time, and that's exactly what newspapers and magazines want you to do. Well, here in Microsoft Word, we have the ability to place entire documents or parts of our document into multiple columns. That's what we're going to explore in this movie with our Red30 conference document 0404 if you're catching up. As we scroll down, you can see everything is in a single wide column. By clicking at the top of our document, if we wanted this to be in multiple columns,…

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