How do I create Horizontal Columns

[Guest]

I am attempting to create a 3-fold brochure (in a landscape format) in MS
Word but the columns are not formatting horizontally only vertically as in a
book rather than a brochure. I would really appreciate anyone's assistance.

 

[Guest]

This is your second request regarding this question.

Suzanne Barnhill suggested in response to your first request that you use a
table. I agree and would suggest that you use a three-column table to set up
your tri-fold brochure. I am assuming that your page setup is already set at
landscape.

To create the necessary space between "columns" you will need to increase
the internal margins in your table (Table > Table Properties, click the Cell
tab and the Option button, change the cell margin to a sufficient size to
allow the appearance of columns).

I'm not sure I understand about the columns not formatting horizontally only
vertically. Do you mean that the text is coming out reading from left to
right, and you want it to read from, say, bottom to top? If this is the
case, you can change the direction of the text in the table cells, Format >
Text Direction. If you are looking for something else, could you please give
a more precise description.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Okay, I think we have a fundamental misunderstanding here. It sounds as if
you are creating a three-panel brochure. That is, you have a landscape page
that will be folded twice, the folds parallel to the short sides. If you set
the number of columns to three (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/UsingColumns.htm for more), then you
will have accomplished this. Each panel will have a portrait orientation (as
in a book); that is normal for a brochure.

But it seems you're really attempting to do something different. Perhaps you
are trying to rotate the text in one column (for a mailing panel, for
example)? To do this you will need to insert a text box, frame, or table
cell and change the text direction in it.

If what you're trying to create is a flyer rather than a brochure, then you
should be using portrait orientation to begin with. When you spoke of
"horizontal columns" (a contradiction in terms: if they're horizontal,
they're rows), I thought perhaps you were trying to repeat the same material
several times on a page, to be cut apart (compliment slips, for example). In
that case, a table is one way of accomplishing your goal.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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I am attempting to create a 3-fold brochure (in a landscape format) in MS
Word but the columns are not formatting horizontally only vertically as in a
book rather than a brochure. I would really appreciate anyone's

assistance.