Text Formatting: Columns Within Text Containers in PowerPoint

Created: Tuesday, July 19, 2022, posted by Geetesh at 12:18 pm

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Columned text layouts are often seen in documents created within word processing programs such as Microsoft Word. Nevertheless, PowerPoint gives you some basic column capabilities, although you should not expect anything close to the controls provided by Word.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Columns Within Text Containers in PowerPoint 2013

Columns Within Text Containers in PowerPoint 2010

Apple Mac

Columns Within Text Containers in PowerPoint 2011

Columns Within Text Containers in PowerPoint

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