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Practical Word skills sharing: left and right column layout in Chinese and English

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What should I do if the left and right column layout in Chinese and English is not good? The following article will introduce to you how to use text boxes to achieve left and right column layout in Chinese and English. I hope it will be helpful to you!

Practical Word skills sharing: left and right column layout in Chinese and English

Everyone who has used Word knows the truth: it is easy to write articles in Word, but it is very difficult to type them in Word.

Especially some long documents in Chinese and English often collapse due to some typesetting problems. For example, we often see English-Chinese reading materials, newspapers, magazines, books, etc... as shown in the figure below.

Practical Word skills sharing: left and right column layout in Chinese and English
The picture comes from the Internet

How to quickly format articles like the picture above in English and Chinese in Word? Today I will teach you a method, which is to use text boxes.

The specific operation method is as follows:

(1) First, insert the left and right text boxes in the document.

Practical Word skills sharing: left and right column layout in Chinese and English

(2) Select two text boxes at the same time, click the [Insert]-[Text]-[Text Box] button, and select "Convert Selected" in the pop-up menu Save Contents to Text Box Library" command to open the "New Building Block" dialog box, name the new text box, and click the "OK" button.

Practical Word skills sharing: left and right column layout in Chinese and English

Tips: Here you can also set the text format or paragraph format in the two text boxes as needed, and then save them to the library for convenience Later use.

(3) Position the mouse cursor on the second page, click the [Insert]-[Text]-[Text Box] button, and select the newly customized double-column text box in the pop-up menu. That's adding it to the page.

Practical Word skills sharing: left and right column layout in Chinese and English

If there are multiple pages in a document that need to insert the same double-column text box, is it very fast and convenient to operate without drawing them one by one?

(4) Then select the first text box, click the [Drawing Tools]-[Format]-[Text]-[Create Link] button. At this time, the mouse becomes a teacup shape, and then click the third Text box, create a link for the text box. Then use the same method to create a link between the second text box and the fourth text box.

Practical Word skills sharing: left and right column layout in Chinese and English

(5) Then add Chinese and English content to the first and second text boxes respectively.

Practical Word skills sharing: left and right column layout in Chinese and English

(6) After the text is added, while holding down the [Ctrl] key, click the text box border in sequence, select all text boxes, and click [Drawing Tools] - [Format]-[Shape Format]-[Shape Outline] button, select the "No Outline" command in the pop-up menu to cancel the outline of all text boxes.

Practical Word skills sharing: left and right column layout in Chinese and English

(7) Finally, you can also adjust the text font, font size, line spacing, paragraph spacing and other formats in the text box according to the situation to get the English-Chinese typesetting effect, as follows As shown in the figure.

Practical Word skills sharing: left and right column layout in Chinese and English

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