Comments on: PowerPoint 2007: How To Create Text Columns

By: Lewis

Lewis — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:37:52 +0000

Saving as a pptx did the trick! Thanks.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:27:26 +0000

thank you very much Selva that worked :) was starting to get frustrated

By: Selva

Selva — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:36:12 +0000

Hi,

To Split text box into two boxes,
1) enter text into text box
2) Then Go to Home Tab—-> Then Paragraph, then click on triangle button in the column button(which is the fifth button on second row on paragraph tab), there you can find specify the number of columns to divide.

The next way, which colin suggested will not work on normal text boxes, it will work only on place holders(you can get this by applying the Title and content layout) then minimize the textbox holder size and then select the text, there you can find the option to split the box.

By: lazer fiyatlari

lazer fiyatlari — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:12:00 +0000

This did not work, help plz..

By: christoph

christoph — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:46:00 +0000

Do what Ryan suggested. You don’t need to mess with anything else. As soon as the presentation is saved in the .pptx format, the column functionality becomes available.

By: leah

leah — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:18:00 +0000

How do you create 2 columns in PowerPoint 2007in a text box? I tried everything and I even went to Help and it said the same thing: select the txt box, go to Home tab, then to paragraph and then click 2 columns- nothing happened. Could someone help me?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:39:00 +0000

how to made a text box too small to fit the text?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:49:00 +0000

If you originally created your powerpoint file with office 2003, but are now using 2007, then the file will be operating in compatibility mode, which essentially means it won’t allow you to do things that won’t work if you want to open it in the old powerpoint again. Go to Save As and choose to save a new version of the file as a 2007 powerpoint file. That should make it so the column options aren’t grayed out anymore. Hope that helps.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:30:00 +0000

Thanks Buddy!!! This worked out excellent!!! Actually, I’m trying for this option for more than 24 hrs. Great!!!

By: Me

Me — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:32:00 +0000

Thanks, Colin. That helped me!