columns are used in many different
documents such as newspapers magazines
academic journals and often in
newsletters columns are a great tool
that allows you to arrange text and
interesting ways before we get started
formatting this newsletter with columns
I'm going to add a little more space
between my title and the main body of
the newsletter and change my font a bit
I want all of my article titles to be
read if I want to change the rest of the
titles I can just select the text that
is formatted the way I want click the
format painter command on the Home tab
and then select the text I want to
change format painter is a quick way to
make changes like this easily
now let's add some columns to this
document I think these last three
articles will look good format into
columns it will really help to set the
top article apart and draw attention to
it to add columns select the text you
want to format select the page Layout
tab and left click the columns command
select the number of columns you would
like I think two will look good so I'll
just click it and the columns appear in
my document this looks pretty good now
let's click the show/hide command on the
Home tab just so we can see our
paragraph marks and section breaks as
you start tweaking your document a bit
turning this feature on and off can be
helpful you may also want to make sure
your ruler is turned on I think I want
to add a little something at the top of
my newsletter to help divide this first
article from the rest and really
emphasize it I think a border around
this title will look really good now I
could just use the borders command but
this only allows me to use straight
lines or border art what I really like
to do is insert a shape that will create
a border around this section I think our
rounded rectangle will look good it will
match my rounded corners on the picture
now you may be wondering where did my
text and image go don't worry it's still
there it's just hidden by default the
shape appears over everything else in
the document area what we need to do is
change the order of our shape text and
image this just means we're going to
change what appears on top or how the
items are layered just right click the
shape and in the menu that appears
select order see all the choices if I
select brain to front this shape will
stay at the front that's not what I want
in this case I need to select send
behind text this will make it so my text
and image are displayed on top of the
shape let me just resize the shape a bit
as you can see ordering is a great
feature especially when dealing with
shapes and images that you may need to
layer on top of each other to create the
look you want in your document you may
want to give it a try in this document
or open a blank document and really play
around with how you can order various
items like text shapes clip art and more
have fun
you