When you lay out page text in columns you will generally fit a little more text on the page than if you laid it out so the lines stretch full width of the page. The shorter lines of text are also ...

You can mix column with paragraph formats in the same document by simply changing the column format. For example, you may want to have your document open with an introductory paragraph or two, while ...

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 ...

Excel Conditional Formatting already lets you format cells based on the value of those cells or the value of the formulas in those cells (see our conditional formatting tutorial for more details). Now ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Microsoft Excel and other popular modern spreadsheet programs, text and numbers are displayed in a rectangular grid of cells. Generally, every cell in a row or column has the same size, so you ...