How to Make Precision Distance & Width of Columns in Microsoft Word

How to Make Precision Distance & Width of Columns in Microsoft Word. After making a column written in the document, we sometimes need to adjust the spacing between columns by dragging the mouse. But the spacing is less precise or only be guessed at. To be able to make more precise distance between the columns of 1 cm or 1 inch for example, you can use the following steps in Microsoft Word 2007.

  1. Click on or place the text cursor in text fields that you want to change the distance between columns.
  2. Click the Page Layout Ribbon
  3. Select the Columns button
  4. On the popup menu that appears select the More Columns item
  5. Picture: How to bring up a dialog column to set the column format text in Microsoft Word 2007

  6. You will be given a Column dialog that allows you to organize your writing the column configuration. On the width and spacing grup, fill the column width in the Width box, while to adjust the spacing between the columns fill the distance between columns in the Spacing box.
  7. Make sure that you fill value is to your liking and then press the OK button.

Picture: How to set the column format text in Microsoft Word 2007 using the dialog column

Tips when creating precision spacing and column width in Microsoft Word

When you arrange or provide value for the column width, the spacing between the columns will be adjusted automatically by Microsoft Word and vice versa. When you set the value of space between the columns so the column width is automatically adjusted.
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How to Adjust the Distance Between Columns Easily in Microsoft Word

How to Adjust the Distance Between Columns Easily in Microsoft Word. When you make writing in a columns format, sometimes you feel the distance between the columns are too close or too far perhaps. By the way, you can easily adjust the spacing between columns written in Microsoft Word with the following steps.

  1. Click on a column that will change the spacing between columns
  2. Point your mouse cursor to the ruler
  3. Image: An easy way to make writing newspaper columns like in Microsoft Word 2007

  4. If the mouse cursor has changed into a two-way arrows, horizontal left and right, click and drag to the left or right to change the distance between your columns. At the time of dragging the process is done, you will see vertical dotted lines change with the position.
  5. If the column space has been to your liking, release the mouse button.
  6. The distance between the columns of your writing has changed.

Tips when Set the Distance Between Column Text in Microsoft Word

  • When you do a drag to minimize the distance between the columns, there is a minimum distance allowed by Microsoft Word.
  • To set a more specific range or precision, you should use the column dialog for setting the column.

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How to Make Newspaper Column Writing Easily in Microsoft Word

How to Make Newspaper Column Writing Easily in Microsoft Word. You must already know about the text column in the newspaper. The writing on the paper using some of the columns so that the reading process becomes more comfortable. Microsoft Word also provides the facility to make writing with forms such as newspaper columns. To create a column of text in Microsoft Word 2007 you can use the following steps.

  1. Create your typing or writing in advance.
  2. Next, block the text that will be made into a columns
  3. Select the Page Layout Ribbon
  4. Click the Columns button.
  5. Image: An easy way to make writing newspaper columns like in Microsoft Word 2007

  6. On the popup menu that appears you will be given several options, pick one of it:
    • One: create a form of writing a column (as usual typewriting)
    • Two: make text into two columns of equal width
    • Three: make text into 3 columns of writing the same large width
    • Left: make text into 2 columns, left hand column is smaller than the right column.
    • Right: make text into 2 columns, right-hand column is smaller than the left hand column.
    • More columns: displays the other options for making further columns.

Tips when Creating Columns in Microsoft Word

  • If you want to make four columns or more then you can make it by accessing the menu item More Columns.
  • You can reset the column that you created by making the text into one column.

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How to Easily Create Diagonal Lines in the Cell Table in Microsoft Word

How to Easily Create Diagonal Lines in the Cell Table in Microsoft Word. To create a diagonal line in the Cell Table Microsoft Word you can follow the 2 steps below.

Make a Diagonal Line Through the Border and Shading Dialog

  1. Select the cell or block of diagonal lines that will be made
  2. Click the right mouse button on the blocked area
  3. On the popup menu that appears click the item Border and Shading
  4. Image: An easy way to make a diagonal line in the table cell in Microsoft Word by using the help of Dialog Border and shading

  5. On the Border and Shading dialog click the button you want diagonal
  6. Click OK to use a table format cell border

How to Make a Diagonal Line by using the Draw Table

  1. Click one cell in the table
  2. On the Table Tools menu, click Ribbon Design
  3. On the right side of the ribbon click the Draw Table
  4. Click the corner cell that will be made diagonal line and drag it into another angle to form a diagonal line and then release the mouse button.
  5. Do it over and over again for another cell you want to give a diagonal line.

Image: An easy way to make a diagonal line in the table cell in Microsoft Word by using the Draw Table

Tips when Creating a Diagonal Lines on the Table Cell in Microsoft Word

To create a diagonal line on many cell you should use a way of making the first diagonal line which is using the help of Border and Shading Dialog.

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How to Create a Different Header & Footer In One Document Microsoft Word

How to Create a Different Header & Footer In One Document Microsoft Word. To make a display variations sometimes we need to provide a different header or footer between one page to another. To create the look of a different header and footer on second page or on each page in Microsoft Word 2007 you can follow the steps below.

  1. Place the text cursor position on where you want to create a different header or footer
  2. Create a new Section. The way the rapid succession – also press ALT + I, B, N.
  3. In the Break dialog is shown, in the Section break types select Next Page
  4. Click OK to add a new Section
  5. Next double click on the header or footer area, or you can do it by right-clicking on the header or footer area and then on the popup menu that appears click the item , Edit Header or Edit Footer
  6. Picture: How to set up headers and footers in Microsoft Word to be different on each page

  7. See the picture above. If you provide a check on the Different First Page you will have a different first page that the image is shown by the First Page Header Section 2. Meanwhile, if you want the Header is different from the header of the previous section, then remove the Link to Previous. With the same way, you should do in the footer if you want your page footer different from the previous page footer section.

Tips to make a different header and footer

If you want a different header or footer to the header or footer that exist in the previous section then you must remove the check mark on the item “link to previous” first before doing the editing process of the header or footer
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