A number of readers have asked how to divide text into columns within Microsoft Word. Well, there are four basic column types that I call “Book,” “Newspaper,” “Table&#… ...

Microsoft Word 2010 provides many formatting options; you can even split a page into four parts if you want to display four separate images, charts or even blocks of text.

You can split cells into columns in Excel using the "Text to Columns" tool, which is a great way to organize lots of data.