How to Create Columns in Google Docs

1. Introduction
2. Steps to Make Columns
3. Column Options
4. Additional Features & Tips

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Introduction

Google Docs makes it easy to create columns for organizing content in a professional layout. Columns are useful for newsletters, brochures, or academic formatting. You can apply them to an entire document or just to a selected portion of text.

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Steps to Make Columns

Follow these steps to insert columns in your Google Docs (desktop/web version):

1. Open the Google Docs document you want to work on.
2. If you want columns only in part of the document, highlight the text. If you don’t select anything, the column layout applies to the whole document.
3. Go to the top menu and click Format.
4. Hover over or click Columns.
5. Select one of the layouts (one, two, or three columns).

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Column Options

For more control over the layout, click More options under the Columns menu. This lets you adjust:

• Number of columns
• Spacing between columns
• Whether to show a line between columns

After making your adjustments, click Apply. The document (or selected text) will reflow into the columns.

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Additional Features & Tips

Here are some extra tools to work with columns effectively:

• Column break: To force text into the next column, go to Insert → Break → Column break.
• Changing columns: To adjust the number of columns, repeat the Format → Columns step and select a new layout.
• Removing columns: To return to a single-column layout, set it back to one column.