Columns are commonly used in newsletters, brochures, and similar documents. The shorter lines of text provided by columns are easier to read, and they provide greater flexibility in formatting a document with graphics, tables, and other elements. Word makes it easy to use columns in your documents. Figure 21.1 shows a document formatted with three columns.
The columns that you create in Word are newspaper-style columns, which means that the text flows to the bottom of one column and then continues at the top of the next column on the page. For side-by-side paragraphs, such as those used in a resume or a script, use Word's table feature (as discussed in Lesson 20, "Organizing Your Document with Tables" ).