If you're going to prepare a ten page report about the quarterly sales, your readers would probably lose interest half-way through. If the same content is presented in the form of rows and columns, you can catch your reader's attention better and give them a more clear picture of what you're trying to convey.
Using Tables and Column Options in Writer, you can easily bifurcate your content into rows and columns.
Here's how you can use Tables to create rows and columns.
To create a row, follow the below steps:
1. Go to More Options (☰) > Insert > Pictures & Tables > Table and create the number of rows you want.
2. Now enter the details in the row.
3. Now under Table Options, choose the second design. This will hide the table borders and make the table appear as rows.
To create a column, follow the below steps:
1. Go to
More Options (☰)
>
Insert
>
Pictures & Tables
>
Table
and create the number of columns you want.
2. Now enter the text for the columns.
3. Now under Table Options, choose the second design. This will hide the table borders and make the table appear as columns.
Multi-Column Option
If you want to apply columns to all pages, you can use the Column option. To do this, follow the below steps:
1. Go to More Options (☰) > Page Setup > Columns.
2. Choose the column type and apply. In this case, let's apply the newspaper column type.
3. To skip to the next column, insert a column break by going to More Options (☰) > Insert > Break > Column Break.
4. Now the cursor will move to the next column. You can now add another column as shown below.