The following video lesson, titled “ Creating Columns in a Document,” shows you how to create columns in Word. This video lesson is from our complete Word tutorial, titled “ Mastering Word Made Easy v.2016-2013.”

Click the "Columns" button. Click one of the options from the drop-down menu, such as "Three." Note that nothing on the Word working page appears to change since there is no text yet, but the small ruler at the top of the work area is

In Word, type the lines of text in a single column anywhere in the document. Then, select the lines of text and click the Page Layout tab. In the Page Setup options, click Columns and select the desired number of columns.