Balance text in Word columns in three easy steps

Column-formatted
text looks more professional with the text balanced across the columns. You don’t
have to manually set column breaks and move text around on a page to make your
columns even—let Word do the work for you. Follow these steps:

1. Click
   at the end of the columns you want to balance.
2. Go
   to Insert | Break.
3. Select
   Continuous and click OK.

Word inserts a continuous section break that automatically balances the text equally
among the columns.

If
you want to start a new page after the balanced columns, click after the
continuous section break, and then insert a manual page break by pressing [Ctrl][Enter].

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