One of the simplest ways to make a page more attractive and easy to read is to place the text in columns. Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Apr. 2013 and the video tutorial for ...

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 ...

Give your business newsletters, manuals and brochures a designer look by arranging the text in them in a columnar layout. The shorter lines and punchier look of a two-column layout maximizes the use ...

A table is an object that is made up of columns and rows, and its purpose is to store and organize data. In Microsoft Word, users can change the table border styles and shade the cells with various ...

I’ve heard from some readers who have asked about creating columns in a Microsoft Word document. Well, there are four basic types of columns that I refer to as “Book,” “Newspaper,” “Table” and “Tabbed ...

You can do a mail merge in Microsoft Word and Excel to create personalized documents for many recipients at once.

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 ...

Word tables have long been a way that people create spreadsheet-like items in Word documents. Word tables are also often used to improve the layout of a page in Word. Regardless of how you plan to use ...

While Microsoft Excel is great at performing calculations, producing charts and storing data, you can more easily create a descriptive, expressive and readable business report by using Microsoft Word ...

Word tables are great tools for listing and comparing values. I use them a lot because they’re so easy to create and manipulate. In addition, I’m always learning new tricks to use with them. For ...