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Re: PowerPoint 2007: How To Create Text Columns

lazer fiyatlari — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 10:12:26 -0000

This did not work, help plz..

Re: PowerPoint 2007: How To Create Text Columns

christoph — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:46:27 -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.

Re: PowerPoint 2007: How To Create Text Columns

leah — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:18:29 -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?

Re: PowerPoint 2007: How To Create Text Columns

net2 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:39:39 -0000

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

Re: PowerPoint 2007: How To Create Text Columns

Ryan — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:49:24 -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.

Re: PowerPoint 2007: How To Create Text Columns

abalu71 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:30:52 -0000

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

Re: PowerPoint 2007: How To Create Text Columns

Me — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:32:26 -0000

Thanks, Colin. That helped me!

Re: PowerPoint 2007: How To Create Text Columns

julian — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:47:26 -0000

Wait, I think it might have something to do with the fact that you need to have enough text in the text box that it will actually fit into two columns - I did the two columns thing and nothing happened until I kept typing but it seemed to work for lists and nothing else.. I dunno, I'm meant to be doing it for some assignment and its driving me nuts lol

Re: PowerPoint 2007: How To Create Text Columns

Julian — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:57:22 -0000

This did not work, I couldnt select two columns it was not active whatever I tried..

Re: PowerPoint 2007: How To Create Text Columns

Colin — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:35:10 -0000

This is probably too late for Tim, but I found this page while trying to understand why I had no option to create more than 1 column in PowerPoint 2007. Here's what worked for me...

1. I made the text box too small to fit text.
2. I selected all text in text box.
3. This caused the "Stop fitting text to placeholder" box to appear on the left of the text box.
4. Use the drop-down arrow and the last option is "Split into 2 columns"

Hope that helps someone.

Re: PowerPoint 2007: How To Create Text Columns

suzan — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:19:51 -0000

Did you select your text first?

Re: PowerPoint 2007: How To Create Text Columns

Tim — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:37:21 -0000

For some reason two and three are grayed out. Any ideas why? Thanks.