You can arrange your text into columns in PowerPoint. You can also specify the spacing (in inches) between the columns. Here’s how:

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Newer versions

If you download an operation system-specific font (i.e., only Mac or Windows), you must embed that font in your PDF. The title should be approximately the entire width of the poster with the main text broken into multiple columns, usually three or four depending on the size of the poster.

Columns Within Text Containers in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac. We told you PowerPoint's column options for text are limited! The good thing is that when you do have too much text on a slide (and trust us, too much text is not a good thing on a slide), then you can easily convert a single-column layout into a multi-column one -- giving your text.
A two column page of text is VERY different from two columns of text on a page, if that makes any sense. If you're just looking for text to start at the top in a left column and go all the way down the page and then continue at the top of the right column, that's called a two-column layout (or multi-column, if you will).

Right-click the text box, placeholder, or shape border, and click Format Shape.
On the right side of the window, click Text Options > Textbox .
Click Columns, enter the number of columns in the Number box, and the space between each column (in inches) in the Spacing box.
If the Columns button is grayed out, it's likely because you are working on a table. Columns for tables are described in a separate article. See Add or delete table rows and columns.
Any text you now enter will appear in columns. If the object you right-clicked in step 1 already contained text, you’ll see that the text now appears in columns.
You can adjust balance of text in your columns by adding or remove line breaks: Press Enter to add blank lines and move text to the next column, or press Backspace or Delete or remove blank lines and move text to the previous column. https://pandabrown.amebaownd.com/posts/17204938.
You can also resize the box that contains the columns to make the columns more even, if you like.

Office 2007 or 2010

Right-click the text box, placeholder, or shape border, and click Format Shape.
In the Format Shape dialog box, select the Text Box tab on the left.
Click Columns, enter the number of columns in the Number box, and the space between each column (in inches) in the Spacing box.
If the Columns button is grayed out, it's likely because you are working on a table. Columns for tables are described in a separate article. See Add or delete table rows and columns.
Click OK, and then close the Format Shape dialog box. Any text you now enter will appear in columns. If the object you right-clicked in step 1 already contained text, you’ll see that the text now appears in columns.
You can adjust balance of text in your columns by adding or remove line breaks: Press Enter to add blank lines and move text to the next column, or press Backspace or Delete or remove blank lines and move text to the previous column.
You can also resize the box that contains the columns to make the columns more even, if you like.

Newer versions

Right-click the text box, placeholder, or shape border, and click Format Shape.
On the right side of the window, click Text Options > Textbox .
Click Columns, enter the number of columns in the Number box, and the space between each column (in inches) in the Spacing box.
If the Columns button is grayed out, it's likely because you are working on a table. Columns for tables are described in a separate article. See Add or delete table rows and columns.
Any text you now enter will appear in columns. If the object you right-clicked in step 1 already contained text, you’ll see that the text now appears in columns.
https://pandabrown.amebaownd.com/posts/17346976. You can adjust balance of text in your columns by adding or remove line breaks: Press Enter to add blank lines and move text to the next column, or press Backspace or Delete or remove blank lines and move text to the previous column.
You can also resize the box that contains the columns to make the columns more even, if you like.

Office 2011

Right-click the text box, placeholder, or shape border, and click Format Text.
In the Format Text dialog box, on the left side, select the Columns tab.
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If the Columns tab isn't available, it's likely because you are working on a table or on an object that doesn't support multiple columns. Columns for tables are described in a separate article. See Add or delete table rows and columns.
Enter a numeral in the Number of columns box, and enter the space you want between each column (in inches) in the Spacing between columns box.
Select OK. Any text you now enter will appear in columns. If the object you right-clicked in step 1 already contained text, you’ll see that the text now appears in columns.
You can adjust balance of text in your columns by adding or remove line breaks: Press Enter to add blank lines and move text to the next column, or press Backspace or Delete or remove blank lines and move text to the previous column.
You can also resize the box that contains the columns to make the columns more even, if you like.

Column breaks

PowerPoint doesn't have the ability to insert a column break in a multi-column text box. If you want to vote for having this feature, go to this page in the PowerPoint suggestion box and click Vote.

Making columns in a table

If you're using a table, the feature for making columns is different. Read Add or delete table rows and columns instead of this article.

Newer versions

Office 2007 or 2010

Newer versions

Office 2011

Column breaks

Making columns in a table

See Also

Powerpoitn For Mac Two Column Text