How to REALLY use Microsoft Word - Columns, Breaks, and spaces in Tables

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So glad I found this video

Thank you Scott!. I learned quite a bit from watching you in this video. This was a very productive way for me to spend ~10 minutes. Thank you for creating and posting it!

I've been trying to figure out how to sue (and the use for) the "Start new column" checkbox on Home > Page Setup > COlumns > More columns. I've discoverd that it only becomes active when you select Apply to this point forward, but clickingit after that seems to switch my columns back to one column (with a tiny break marker between) and I cannot do anything wiht the resulting columns after that. I can't find any reference that explains how this tool is used. Any help?

For the last 2 days I've been stuck on one document because I didn't know how to insert columns within a single column. And your video has been hiding from me for two years. Just kidding. Two years on, and your video is still helping people! Thank you! 😊

Great video but I felt you went a little fast and hard to see. Could you zoom in more? Where did you find ruler? I had a table no matter what I did I keep losing the right margin. When I print even landscape, it was cutting off table. I also couldn’t see what you pushed to create that big space embedded in paragraph sign. In my table there is space I can’t get rid of. In layout it says zero and yet there is this space.

How can I make 4 or more coloumns where the text doesn flow from one to the other? It says its in own coloumn

Great video, clear instructions.

I'm having an issue that maybe you can help me with. I have a table in my Microsoft Word document (Office 2013) that continues onto a second page. It happens to be the second to last page and last page of that part of a large document. I need the header to say "whatever words (Continued)" on the second to last page, and "whatever words (Concluded)" on the last page. Because I am in a table, it won't let me do the usual of clicking on next page & unselecting "Link to Previous". How can I get around this? Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. I did watch your video and learned something I didn't know, so it was helpful, just not for this particular problem. Thanks so much in advance.

Some feedback. You move through the material too fast. You know what you're doing, but I don't. My question was how do I make the text in column one continue to the bottom of the page before it wraps up to the top of the next column. I end up with equal length columns and unwanted white space at the bottom of the page across the two columns.

Thank you Scott. Excellent tutorial. I wish I could calculate how much time you've just saved me! Best wishes, Brian

Thanks for the column ? tutorial - But how can I set up 3 columns in advance, and then fill them in with different text. Rather than creating columns out of already finished copy. Thank you.

Excellent teaching. When I have a table on top of a page and cannot add an enter at the beginning, I position my cursor on the first row and used control + shift + enter and problem solve. Love your channel. A hug from Puerto Rico.

Please do a video about numbers and bullets. I sometimes fix docs for others(bosses).

Good Content; good pace. thanks

Hello. Great videos, very helpful. I am struggling with not being able to write at the top of a table I pasted on a page.

Helped me with my business. Thumbs up!!! Thank you.

Thank you, very helpful Scott.

May I please ask how horizontal colums can be made, with different sizes on the colums?

Really helpful, thanks a lot!

This was super helpful. Thank you. One thing I still need to figure out is how to make the text stay in the right hand column as it moves to the next page. We had to rebuild a file that a former employee had created. She left us only a PDF that could not be modified or exported into any other program to edit. In the file there is a header that is in the left column, and the main text in the right column. The main text can span multiple pages, and it flows from page to page in the right hand column until the next main section, where a new header is added to the left column, and it starts over. I scanned it in and used text recognition to recreate it in word, and it put the file in the right format, but as soon as I add any text that moves a word to the next page, everything blows up from that point forward. Any suggestions as to how to make that work?

Very helpful. Thank you.

Really helpful, thanks :)

Dear Scott - I wrote (typed) a whole ebook by hand not knowing that I could have 2 columns and NO columns on the same page! My husband found you and now I know... Thank you for being here! We love you!!

Great video indeed, however how can we create a layout that is symmetrical for biding purposes? Imagine 3 columns, where the outside column is wider, so on one page it would be on the right and on other page it would be on the left.
Regards.

Thanks, your explanations of the behind the scenes functions is particularly helpful. I find Word often frustrating but your soothing voice makes it more palatable.

Thank you so much! I've always had issues with columns starting not where I have wanting them. Not only did you give me the answer, but you did it in a way that I could understand. Plus I got some extra tips that I wasn't expecting!

You can use the built in function in word to get random text. Just type "=rand(5,5)" anywhere to get five paragraphs of text with five sentences each.

Hey Scott! My wife asks if you can do one of these for Excel :)

Hello Scott, your a good teacher, good job explaining, thanks for all your time that you take to instruct.
I do have a question, which hopefully you can help me with, lets say I have a sentence at the bottom of the page, (and not on the footer) and if I type my document starting at the top, and hit enter, that sentence always moves down or creates another page, I have to delete paragraph marks to bring the sentence back. Is there something I can do that the sentence at the bottom of the page stays at the bottom? thanks for your time

I’m so lost, PLEASE HELP!
I have a three page document. Pages 2&3 need to stay static format wise, the first page I need to be able to edit(add and remove text) but when I do, it moves the text on the 2nd and 3rd page. Is it possible to get page one to start an entire fresh page and make the whole thing 4 pages if I need to overflow page 1?

I think there is a related question I had that effects both Word and Google Docs with the table at the end.

Basically, you have a page so full of text and at the bottom is a table. The issue is that I did in fact delete all paragraph marks after the table. The whole table is on the first page but I still have an empty 2nd page.

The only workaround I can find is to modify the paragraph style of the last paragraph marks to be as small as possible.

Usually this works, but I believe I had one document where it still had a second page!

Another workaround, although undesirable unless there are very few pages, is to modify the page margins by tiny amounts.

Maybe this is a bug that many don't see a lot, or maybe it is working as intended. But it can be annoying when come across.

I am SO stoked to have found your channel!! What I enjoy are:

1), you maintain a nice calm pace 2) you speak and explain your topic thoroughly but not like your beating a dead horse 3) I can walk away with not only the main skill you explain but a few nice side notes to improve my skill.

Thank you for your videos!!

Wow these are great! Now I see so much I thought I new and didn't. Thankyou for making it so thorough and easy to understand. Also, going over 1or 2 times really helps me not have to keep rewinding. 👍😁 I ALSO AM FEELING MUCH MORE CONFIDENT!

Thanks for these, I'm going through them one by one. I am interested in formatting techniques to break up long and complex forms. Cheers

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Nice video. Very helpful. I want to show two columns with text on the left and a different language on the right. This requires independence of the two columns.

While adding a table. I've a bill of materials and use a SKU PN in the first cell in column 1, to auto-fill the sku description and quantity. Is this possible to have columns 2 and 3 automatically fill in the details, matching the SKU?

So impressed with you super clear tutorials that are wonderfully packed with so many tips and tricks. Could you possibly help me better understand how to create a custom header and footer that incorporates my brand elements (logo, accent graphics, etc.) but still allows space for header/footer text and page numbers to all work together?

Thanks for this wonderful video! They are extremely helpful. I have a question. Is it possible to link text between Word and Excell?

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Maybe prove to me why I need to learn F#? Is it the future or is there something else? Cheers and thanks for everything and take care.

Thanks, Scott.

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Thanks a lot. Your examples are making positive changes in the world.🙏🏼