In Word document of text, what character separates colums for ins.

[Rosscandoit]

In a Word file that is full of blocks of text. I inserted a table over some
marked text and it did it, but put it in 4 columns instead of 2 that I
wanted. I could not find a way to make the table insertion with columns in
specific place(s). It seems there would be a character that would used to
indicate column placement, but I could not find it.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I think we're going to need a better explanation of what you did. Did you
use Table | Insert Table (which allows you to choose the number of columns
you want)? Or did you use the Insert Table button on the toolbar, which
allows you to drag to select the number of columns you want? Or did you use
Table | Convert | Text to Table, in which you can also specify the desired
separator and number of columns? What do you mean by "blocks of text"?
Paragraphs? Text boxes? Newspaper-style columns?

 

[Rosscandoit]

"Rosscandoit" wrote: Suzanne, thank you for getting back to me. I chose
Table(on the menues)/insert table. It did not stop and offer input on
columns, etc. It just sucked up the marked text in the table with the
columes placed wherever it thought best, which was not where I wanted and
could not change them, not without losing text.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you're trying to put existing text in a table, then you need to use Table
| Convert | Text to Table. You can choose where to separate the columns and
make sure the correct number of columns is selected.