Microsoft Word Practice Exam

You control where column formatting applies by choosing the scope in the Columns dialog. To have multiple columns only for a single paragraph, select that paragraph first, then choose the option that applies to the Selected Text. Word will wrap that chosen text in its own section so that only it uses columns, while the rest of the document stays in a single column layout. If you pick Whole Document, every paragraph would be reformatted; if you pick This Section, the change could apply to more than just that one paragraph depending on how your document is organized; using Selected Text confines the change precisely to what you selected. The key idea is that columns are a section-level setting, and applying to Selected Text is the way to isolate the effect to just the chosen paragraph.