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Putting text into columns

Putting text into columns

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Putting text into columns

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- Have you ever gotten tired reading? Well, your eyes do use muscles, so if you need to scan a document from the left-hand margin all the way to the right and then repeat that for every single line in your document, eventually you will get tired. But we can lessen the fatigue by shortening the distance that we need to scan with our eyes by putting content into columns. That's why you see columns in newspapers, for example. We're going to do that with our press release document we've been working with. If you need to get caught up, open up LH_press_release0801. As we scroll through the document, you might think we're not using columns here, but we are. One single wide column that goes from the left margin to the right. A little further down on page two, if you were following along with me when we created lists, there was an area here that was already put into columns for us, so we were able to create our lists, but how did that work? I'm going to show you right now on page one. Let's…

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