Dear Scott - I wrote (typed) a whole ebook by hand not knowing that I could have 2 columns and NO columns on the same page! My husband found you and now I know... Thank you for being here! We love you!!
I am SO stoked to have found your channel!! What I enjoy are: 1), you maintain a nice calm pace 2) you speak and explain your topic thoroughly but not like your beating a dead horse 3) I can walk away with not only the main skill you explain but a few nice side notes to improve my skill. Thank you for your videos!!
For the last 2 days I've been stuck on one document because I didn't know how to insert columns within a single column. And your video has been hiding from me for two years. Just kidding. Two years on, and your video is still helping people! Thank you! 😊
Thank you Scott!. I learned quite a bit from watching you in this video. This was a very productive way for me to spend ~10 minutes. Thank you for creating and posting it!
This is the best Office tutorial I have ever seen. I like how you take your time and show few extra tips and tricks, how you address possible scenarios or errors someone might do while getting office to show what they want to show. And, the way you clearly communicate is just awesome ! I wish all the professors, UA-cam tutorials were this clear. Please, Keep up the good work and keep creating office tutorial on Excel, Word, Power point and Access. I cant wait to watch and learn more complex activities using these tools. Some stuff i am currently struggling with is excel charts, Pivot tables, VLOOKUP , Index match functions. (Formulas in general from basic to complex, things don't always work out the same everytime, I think its due to me just winging it everytime)I was looking at creating a word form and your other video was instrumental! please see if you can create more content on tables.THANK YOU!
Thank you so much! I've always had issues with columns starting not where I have wanting them. Not only did you give me the answer, but you did it in a way that I could understand. Plus I got some extra tips that I wasn't expecting!
Thanks, your explanations of the behind the scenes functions is particularly helpful. I find Word often frustrating but your soothing voice makes it more palatable.
Excellent teaching. When I have a table on top of a page and cannot add an enter at the beginning, I position my cursor on the first row and used control + shift + enter and problem solve. Love your channel. A hug from Puerto Rico.
Scott, I think you misunderstood the last question. As you probably know, in Word for some reason a table cannot be the last item in the document. If you try, Word maintains at least an empty paragraph dangling after the table which cannot be removed. The problem happens when the intended last page of the document ends with a table right at the bottom: it can happen that the table is so close to the end of the page that the dangling paragraph cannot fit in the page, causing an extra blank page to be rendered. I think the asker has the last page perfectly laid out, except for the extra page and wants to know if there is a way to remove the extra page caused by the dangling empty paragraph without “ruining the perfect layout” of that last page. I don’t think there is a way. My usual suggestions if you really want to keep the exact visual layout are: a) reduce the font size of the dangling paragraph - that might be enough for it to fit in the last page; or b) reduce the bottom margin on the last page alone (which involves section breaks of course) until the dangling blank paragraph fits. Both are unfortunately ugly hacks.
hoss, you're on fire with the posts to youtube. You're a hero for me when it comes to multitasking and breadth of knowledge. Keep rocking dipshit, love ya.
You can also use =rand or =lorem to generate demo text, and both will take parameters for number of paragraphs and sentences. For example, =lorem(2,6).
Thanks for the video! 7:30 to tab inside a table, I press ctrl + tab; 8:27 to get above the table, I just press Enter at the start of the first word in the table
Wow these are great! Now I see so much I thought I new and didn't. Thankyou for making it so thorough and easy to understand. Also, going over 1or 2 times really helps me not have to keep rewinding. 👍😁 I ALSO AM FEELING MUCH MORE CONFIDENT!
i'm a C# beginner .. i'v done some HTML,CSS, sql ...it would nice idea of a series of C# 101 from oop to advanced stuff or recommendation for some tutorials/docs to follow... i would love to be a .net full stack dev at some point god willing :)
when I pasted text from a single column under a 2 column section it forced the pasted text into 2 columns. I could nto figure out how to go back to one column. You showed me how thank you. Also thanks for the double and tripple click trick.
Nice video. Very helpful. I want to show two columns with text on the left and a different language on the right. This requires independence of the two columns.
I'm having an issue that maybe you can help me with. I have a table in my Microsoft Word document (Office 2013) that continues onto a second page. It happens to be the second to last page and last page of that part of a large document. I need the header to say "whatever words (Continued)" on the second to last page, and "whatever words (Concluded)" on the last page. Because I am in a table, it won't let me do the usual of clicking on next page & unselecting "Link to Previous". How can I get around this? Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. I did watch your video and learned something I didn't know, so it was helpful, just not for this particular problem. Thanks so much in advance.
I think there is a related question I had that effects both Word and Google Docs with the table at the end. Basically, you have a page so full of text and at the bottom is a table. The issue is that I did in fact delete all paragraph marks after the table. The whole table is on the first page but I still have an empty 2nd page. The only workaround I can find is to modify the paragraph style of the last paragraph marks to be as small as possible. Usually this works, but I believe I had one document where it still had a second page! Another workaround, although undesirable unless there are very few pages, is to modify the page margins by tiny amounts. Maybe this is a bug that many don't see a lot, or maybe it is working as intended. But it can be annoying when come across.
This was super helpful. Thank you. One thing I still need to figure out is how to make the text stay in the right hand column as it moves to the next page. We had to rebuild a file that a former employee had created. She left us only a PDF that could not be modified or exported into any other program to edit. In the file there is a header that is in the left column, and the main text in the right column. The main text can span multiple pages, and it flows from page to page in the right hand column until the next main section, where a new header is added to the left column, and it starts over. I scanned it in and used text recognition to recreate it in word, and it put the file in the right format, but as soon as I add any text that moves a word to the next page, everything blows up from that point forward. Any suggestions as to how to make that work?
Thanks for all the tips! I love how you describe extra little things you find yourself doing. I'll be looking through some more of your videos to pick up tips to use mail merge in some neat ways. I'd like to use it to make little backers for my Disney pin collection. So far, I'm thinking of telling it I've got 2" x 2" page size, 6-up so it will print me 6 little backers on a 4x6 index card. I would love to be able to include JPGs and I'd love to be able to somehow put six "pages" with the different info on one side and then the other side, something that's common for all. (I think I can do that by having a second page and work them so when I flip the card fronts and backs get aligned. Or I could print the commonality backs, and then do the fronts - but it wouldn't be as useful that way.) Then I'll cut them up and pin each pin onto their 2x2" info card. Probably not too clear without diagrams, but maybe it will make sense if you've ever tried to do something like that. Wonder if I can use columns, tables, and/or text boxes with Mail merge. Thanks again for putting this info out there.
So impressed with you super clear tutorials that are wonderfully packed with so many tips and tricks. Could you possibly help me better understand how to create a custom header and footer that incorporates my brand elements (logo, accent graphics, etc.) but still allows space for header/footer text and page numbers to all work together?
Hello Scott, your a good teacher, good job explaining, thanks for all your time that you take to instruct. I do have a question, which hopefully you can help me with, lets say I have a sentence at the bottom of the page, (and not on the footer) and if I type my document starting at the top, and hit enter, that sentence always moves down or creates another page, I have to delete paragraph marks to bring the sentence back. Is there something I can do that the sentence at the bottom of the page stays at the bottom? thanks for your time
While adding a table. I've a bill of materials and use a SKU PN in the first cell in column 1, to auto-fill the sku description and quantity. Is this possible to have columns 2 and 3 automatically fill in the details, matching the SKU?
I've been trying to figure out how to sue (and the use for) the "Start new column" checkbox on Home > Page Setup > COlumns > More columns. I've discoverd that it only becomes active when you select Apply to this point forward, but clickingit after that seems to switch my columns back to one column (with a tiny break marker between) and I cannot do anything wiht the resulting columns after that. I can't find any reference that explains how this tool is used. Any help?
Hi Scott, thanks for these great tips. Quick question: I love to document my code. It been saving all my documents on some MARKDOWN doc. But some times I do miss word. Do you have any recommendations on templates i can use in word that will keep my 'code' data as presentable as possible? Thanks man
Great video indeed, however how can we create a layout that is symmetrical for biding purposes? Imagine 3 columns, where the outside column is wider, so on one page it would be on the right and on other page it would be on the left. Regards.
hi, i hope your still making videos.anyway, i had text like you did in this video when you just clicked columns the 2, i did the same on mine but it just stayed as 1 column, what might've happened?
10:00 You could, but if all you wanted to accomplish was the page break, then just page, or section, break. Just depends on what you wanted to accomplish formatting wise. All around, very informative. Nice!
Thanks for this video, I learned a few things about Word from it. I would like to see a few examples of Excel. Specifically dealing with dates. I have spreadsheets with a column of dates and some other data. I would like to sum and average them by week and month and month to date and compare them with previous months. Thanks,.
Thanks Scott. Lovely video. Big fan. Would you be kind enough to do a video on your blog writing process. E.g., how to identify a topic to do blog, gather content, format/publish ready and publish. Thanks a lot.
Thanks for the column ? tutorial - But how can I set up 3 columns in advance, and then fill them in with different text. Rather than creating columns out of already finished copy. Thank you.
Great video but I felt you went a little fast and hard to see. Could you zoom in more? Where did you find ruler? I had a table no matter what I did I keep losing the right margin. When I print even landscape, it was cutting off table. I also couldn’t see what you pushed to create that big space embedded in paragraph sign. In my table there is space I can’t get rid of. In layout it says zero and yet there is this space.
Scott please explain to me why my document full of tables and images for school would go crazy (images would disappear, indices would not generate, page number erros, header and footer would not behave). I secretly hated Word back then.
I’m so lost, PLEASE HELP! I have a three page document. Pages 2&3 need to stay static format wise, the first page I need to be able to edit(add and remove text) but when I do, it moves the text on the 2nd and 3rd page. Is it possible to get page one to start an entire fresh page and make the whole thing 4 pages if I need to overflow page 1?
Lookup a tutorial on Page breaks (hard block text pushing into another pages text ie it will make a new page rather than squish text down along the following pages) and section brakes, to control (text/page layout) format "migration" and styles to control ( sets of ) format that you use as an when you want to easily control what the text looks like.
Some feedback. You move through the material too fast. You know what you're doing, but I don't. My question was how do I make the text in column one continue to the bottom of the page before it wraps up to the top of the next column. I end up with equal length columns and unwanted white space at the bottom of the page across the two columns.
Easily one of the most useful Word tutorials I've ever encountered. Thank you!
Dear Scott - I wrote (typed) a whole ebook by hand not knowing that I could have 2 columns and NO columns on the same page! My husband found you and now I know... Thank you for being here! We love you!!
I am SO stoked to have found your channel!! What I enjoy are:
1), you maintain a nice calm pace 2) you speak and explain your topic thoroughly but not like your beating a dead horse 3) I can walk away with not only the main skill you explain but a few nice side notes to improve my skill.
Thank you for your videos!!
For the last 2 days I've been stuck on one document because I didn't know how to insert columns within a single column. And your video has been hiding from me for two years. Just kidding. Two years on, and your video is still helping people! Thank you! 😊
Thank you Scott!. I learned quite a bit from watching you in this video. This was a very productive way for me to spend ~10 minutes. Thank you for creating and posting it!
Scott.... in such a bad time you made me smile the whole time during this video... thanks
This is the best Office tutorial I have ever seen. I like how you take your time and show few extra tips and tricks, how you address possible scenarios or errors someone might do while getting office to show what they want to show. And, the way you clearly communicate is just awesome ! I wish all the professors, UA-cam tutorials were this clear. Please, Keep up the good work and keep creating office tutorial on Excel, Word, Power point and Access. I cant wait to watch and learn more complex activities using these tools. Some stuff i am currently struggling with is excel charts, Pivot tables, VLOOKUP , Index match functions. (Formulas in general from basic to complex, things don't always work out the same everytime, I think its due to me just winging it everytime)I was looking at creating a word form and your other video was instrumental! please see if you can create more content on tables.THANK YOU!
Thank you so much! I've always had issues with columns starting not where I have wanting them. Not only did you give me the answer, but you did it in a way that I could understand. Plus I got some extra tips that I wasn't expecting!
Thanks, your explanations of the behind the scenes functions is particularly helpful. I find Word often frustrating but your soothing voice makes it more palatable.
Thank you, very helpful Scott.
Excellent teaching. When I have a table on top of a page and cannot add an enter at the beginning, I position my cursor on the first row and used control + shift + enter and problem solve. Love your channel. A hug from Puerto Rico.
Great video, clear instructions.
Scott, I think you misunderstood the last question. As you probably know, in Word for some reason a table cannot be the last item in the document. If you try, Word maintains at least an empty paragraph dangling after the table which cannot be removed. The problem happens when the intended last page of the document ends with a table right at the bottom: it can happen that the table is so close to the end of the page that the dangling paragraph cannot fit in the page, causing an extra blank page to be rendered. I think the asker has the last page perfectly laid out, except for the extra page and wants to know if there is a way to remove the extra page caused by the dangling empty paragraph without “ruining the perfect layout” of that last page. I don’t think there is a way. My usual suggestions if you really want to keep the exact visual layout are: a) reduce the font size of the dangling paragraph - that might be enough for it to fit in the last page; or b) reduce the bottom margin on the last page alone (which involves section breaks of course) until the dangling blank paragraph fits. Both are unfortunately ugly hacks.
Helped me with my business. Thumbs up!!! Thank you.
Thanks Scott your tips are on point, are you planning to do the same on EXCEL
Thank you Scott. Excellent tutorial. I wish I could calculate how much time you've just saved me! Best wishes, Brian
So glad I found this video
hoss, you're on fire with the posts to youtube. You're a hero for me when it comes to multitasking and breadth of knowledge. Keep rocking dipshit, love ya.
You can also use =rand or =lorem to generate demo text, and both will take parameters for number of paragraphs and sentences. For example, =lorem(2,6).
Definitely! Thanks! ua-cam.com/video/b0NQe9GsSLg/v-deo.html
Thanks a lot. Your examples are making positive changes in the world.🙏🏼
Very helpful. Thank you.
Thanks for the video! 7:30 to tab inside a table, I press ctrl + tab; 8:27 to get above the table, I just press Enter at the start of the first word in the table
Wow these are great! Now I see so much I thought I new and didn't. Thankyou for making it so thorough and easy to understand. Also, going over 1or 2 times really helps me not have to keep rewinding. 👍😁 I ALSO AM FEELING MUCH MORE CONFIDENT!
Good Content; good pace. thanks
Really helpful, thanks a lot!
i'm a C# beginner .. i'v done some HTML,CSS, sql ...it would nice idea of a series of C# 101 from oop to advanced stuff or recommendation for some tutorials/docs to follow... i would love to be a .net full stack dev at some point god willing :)
Ahmed champion I did that! dot.net/videos
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oh that would definitely help !
thanks Scott for your time and effort :)
when I pasted text from a single column under a 2 column section it forced the pasted text into 2 columns. I could nto figure out how to go back to one column. You showed me how thank you. Also thanks for the double and tripple click trick.
Nice video. Very helpful. I want to show two columns with text on the left and a different language on the right. This requires independence of the two columns.
Any content on JavaScript automating office would be terrific to watch.
Hello. Great videos, very helpful. I am struggling with not being able to write at the top of a table I pasted on a page.
I'm having an issue that maybe you can help me with. I have a table in my Microsoft Word document (Office 2013) that continues onto a second page. It happens to be the second to last page and last page of that part of a large document. I need the header to say "whatever words (Continued)" on the second to last page, and "whatever words (Concluded)" on the last page. Because I am in a table, it won't let me do the usual of clicking on next page & unselecting "Link to Previous". How can I get around this? Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. I did watch your video and learned something I didn't know, so it was helpful, just not for this particular problem. Thanks so much in advance.
I think there is a related question I had that effects both Word and Google Docs with the table at the end.
Basically, you have a page so full of text and at the bottom is a table. The issue is that I did in fact delete all paragraph marks after the table. The whole table is on the first page but I still have an empty 2nd page.
The only workaround I can find is to modify the paragraph style of the last paragraph marks to be as small as possible.
Usually this works, but I believe I had one document where it still had a second page!
Another workaround, although undesirable unless there are very few pages, is to modify the page margins by tiny amounts.
Maybe this is a bug that many don't see a lot, or maybe it is working as intended. But it can be annoying when come across.
Thanks for these, I'm going through them one by one. I am interested in formatting techniques to break up long and complex forms. Cheers
This was super helpful. Thank you. One thing I still need to figure out is how to make the text stay in the right hand column as it moves to the next page. We had to rebuild a file that a former employee had created. She left us only a PDF that could not be modified or exported into any other program to edit. In the file there is a header that is in the left column, and the main text in the right column. The main text can span multiple pages, and it flows from page to page in the right hand column until the next main section, where a new header is added to the left column, and it starts over. I scanned it in and used text recognition to recreate it in word, and it put the file in the right format, but as soon as I add any text that moves a word to the next page, everything blows up from that point forward. Any suggestions as to how to make that work?
Thanks for all the tips! I love how you describe extra little things you find yourself doing. I'll be looking through some more of your videos to pick up tips to use mail merge in some neat ways.
I'd like to use it to make little backers for my Disney pin collection. So far, I'm thinking of telling it I've got 2" x 2" page size, 6-up so it will print me 6 little backers on a 4x6 index card. I would love to be able to include JPGs and I'd love to be able to somehow put six "pages" with the different info on one side and then the other side, something that's common for all. (I think I can do that by having a second page and work them so when I flip the card fronts and backs get aligned. Or I could print the commonality backs, and then do the fronts - but it wouldn't be as useful that way.) Then I'll cut them up and pin each pin onto their 2x2" info card. Probably not too clear without diagrams, but maybe it will make sense if you've ever tried to do something like that.
Wonder if I can use columns, tables, and/or text boxes with Mail merge.
Thanks again for putting this info out there.
So impressed with you super clear tutorials that are wonderfully packed with so many tips and tricks. Could you possibly help me better understand how to create a custom header and footer that incorporates my brand elements (logo, accent graphics, etc.) but still allows space for header/footer text and page numbers to all work together?
Hello Scott, your a good teacher, good job explaining, thanks for all your time that you take to instruct.
I do have a question, which hopefully you can help me with, lets say I have a sentence at the bottom of the page, (and not on the footer) and if I type my document starting at the top, and hit enter, that sentence always moves down or creates another page, I have to delete paragraph marks to bring the sentence back. Is there something I can do that the sentence at the bottom of the page stays at the bottom? thanks for your time
May I please ask how horizontal colums can be made, with different sizes on the colums?
While adding a table. I've a bill of materials and use a SKU PN in the first cell in column 1, to auto-fill the sku description and quantity. Is this possible to have columns 2 and 3 automatically fill in the details, matching the SKU?
I've been trying to figure out how to sue (and the use for) the "Start new column" checkbox on Home > Page Setup > COlumns > More columns. I've discoverd that it only becomes active when you select Apply to this point forward, but clickingit after that seems to switch my columns back to one column (with a tiny break marker between) and I cannot do anything wiht the resulting columns after that. I can't find any reference that explains how this tool is used. Any help?
Thanks for this wonderful video! They are extremely helpful. I have a question. Is it possible to link text between Word and Excell?
Thanks for video. Great tips.
Please do a video about numbers and bullets. I sometimes fix docs for others(bosses).
Hi Scott, thanks for these great tips. Quick question: I love to document my code. It been saving all my documents on some MARKDOWN doc. But some times I do miss word. Do you have any recommendations on templates i can use in word that will keep my 'code' data as presentable as possible? Thanks man
Great video indeed, however how can we create a layout that is symmetrical for biding purposes? Imagine 3 columns, where the outside column is wider, so on one page it would be on the right and on other page it would be on the left.
Regards.
hi, i hope your still making videos.anyway, i had text like you did in this video when you just clicked columns the 2, i did the same on mine but it just stayed as 1 column, what might've happened?
I LOVE your videos
By the way, which version of Office is that, the Dark Theme looks really good.
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10:00 You could, but if all you wanted to accomplish was the page break, then just page, or section, break. Just depends on what you wanted to accomplish formatting wise. All around, very informative. Nice!
Thanks for this video, I learned a few things about Word from it. I would like to see a few examples of Excel. Specifically dealing with dates. I have spreadsheets with a column of dates and some other data. I would like to sum and average them by week and month and month to date and compare them with previous months. Thanks,.
Really helpful, thanks :)
Thanks Scott. Lovely video. Big fan.
Would you be kind enough to do a video on your blog writing process. E.g., how to identify a topic to do blog, gather content, format/publish ready and publish. Thanks a lot.
Thanks, Scott.
Thanks for the column ? tutorial - But how can I set up 3 columns in advance, and then fill them in with different text. Rather than creating columns out of already finished copy. Thank you.
You can use the built in function in word to get random text. Just type "=rand(5,5)" anywhere to get five paragraphs of text with five sentences each.
On Office 365 Word you can actually write =lorem(10, 5) and it will generate the text.
Thanks for the video, Scott. Did you know that Word has its own Lorem generator? Just write =Lorem(10,50), or just =Lorem()
Yes! It's amazing but I felt I would have gone off on just cool hidden Word stuff like =rand(10)
Great video but I felt you went a little fast and hard to see. Could you zoom in more? Where did you find ruler? I had a table no matter what I did I keep losing the right margin. When I print even landscape, it was cutting off table. I also couldn’t see what you pushed to create that big space embedded in paragraph sign. In my table there is space I can’t get rid of. In layout it says zero and yet there is this space.
Scott please explain to me why my document full of tables and images for school would go crazy (images would disappear, indices would not generate, page number erros, header and footer would not behave). I secretly hated Word back then.
I’m so lost, PLEASE HELP!
I have a three page document. Pages 2&3 need to stay static format wise, the first page I need to be able to edit(add and remove text) but when I do, it moves the text on the 2nd and 3rd page. Is it possible to get page one to start an entire fresh page and make the whole thing 4 pages if I need to overflow page 1?
Lookup a tutorial on Page breaks (hard block text pushing into another pages text ie it will make a new page rather than squish text down along the following pages) and section brakes, to control (text/page layout) format "migration" and styles to control ( sets of ) format that you use as an when you want to easily control what the text looks like.
How can I make 4 or more coloumns where the text doesn flow from one to the other? It says its in own coloumn
Instead of copying and pasting from the generator , you can also use the =RAND(10,10) or whetever numbers in Word itself.
Definitely! Thanks! ua-cam.com/video/b0NQe9GsSLg/v-deo.html
Maybe prove to me why I need to learn F#? Is it the future or is there something else? Cheers and thanks for everything and take care.
How do I add tabs into a document with columns?
Instead of copy-pasting lorem-ipsum you can also use =rand(5,10) thats the lorem-ipsum built-in Word
Definitely! Thanks! ua-cam.com/video/b0NQe9GsSLg/v-deo.html
Some feedback. You move through the material too fast. You know what you're doing, but I don't. My question was how do I make the text in column one continue to the bottom of the page before it wraps up to the top of the next column. I end up with equal length columns and unwanted white space at the bottom of the page across the two columns.
Life saver
Hey Scott! My wife asks if you can do one of these for Excel :)
Thank you～～
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What kind of Word is that?
dark theme make it seem different
Why am I randomly watching a guy's tutorial on Word ? This youtube hole went farr
I just wanted to remind you about this UA-cam channel again. Please enjoy your night!
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I am kind of terrified of office in that microsoft will lock me out of my documents the minute I do not make a payment.
That won't happen, you'll always be able to get to them at office.com at the very minimum.
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