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In this video, we're going to compare
two different ways

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of creating a column effect in Microsoft
Word.

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Here's a document
which looks to have two columns.

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The title spans the whole page.

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If I click in the paragraph below,

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the ruler shows that this column ends

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at seven and a half centimetres.

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If I click in the second column,

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you may notice
that a box appears around it.

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That's because I've created
this using a text box.

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So I created the first column,

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and in the layout,

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put in 8.4 cm 
of indentation from the right.

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That brought the page in 8.4 cm,

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leaving the remaining 7.5.

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I then created a text box

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which is square wrapped

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and moved it so that it was in line
with my original paragraph.

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So it looks like I have two columns

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but a screen reader doesn't
even know that this text box exists.

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So now I'll
show you how I should have created it.

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I'm going
to have to do a bit of backtracking.

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So I'm going to copy that text

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and then I'm going to delete the box.

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I'm going to start a new paragraph

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and paste my text.

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I'm then going to get rid of that right
indentation.

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Set it back to zero.

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So now I have just three paragraphs.

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This is how I should have created
my column effect.

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I can highlight
my text that I want to put in columns

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and go to the layout menu.

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I can click on columns.

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I'm going to click on the drop down.

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I could, if I want two equal sized columns,
just click on two

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and it will make those columns for me.

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However, I might want to adjust the widths
of the columns and the space between.

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If so, I can click on the dropdown
and go to more columns.

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Check the number of columns is still two,

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but I'm now going to untick
equal column width

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and I'm going to make the first column
slightly wider

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than the second,

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and I'm going to take out

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some of the spacing in the middle.

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I want to take that 
down to 0.5 cm.

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If I wanted to, I could put a line
between the two columns as well.

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Let's see what that would look like.

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Actually, I don't like the line,
so if I want to go and change something,

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I highlight it all again,
go into columns and more columns,

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and now I can just remove the line.

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And now I have two columns.

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Because of the way
that the line spacing has worked,

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I don't actually like that
spacing in between.

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So I'm just going
to add in a little bit more.

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So I can go back as many times
as I want to

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and make some edits.

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And in this 'Apply to'

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it's showing
this will only apply to the selected text.

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So then when I've finished, I can continue
with one column. There we go.

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And if I was to

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go back, I can now continue
typing here across the whole page.