microsoft-word-2010
Basically, I'm working on a resume and having a hard time getting the layout I want.
I have a title for my coursework section called "RECENT COURSEWORK", with each word on a separate line. I want a table of my coursework organized beside it, rather than under the title. How can this be accomplished in Word?
I realised that this is because the caption was aligned as "centered", therefore you will not be able to see it in the "Caption" space where you type the actual name of the figure/table.
If you actually type "blind", and then press OK, your caption will appear.
The best solution is actually format your caption as aligned "Left" or "Justified", then you wont have to type blind.
When you set the layout to be centered vertically on the page, it affects the entire page. I cannot find a way to do what you want - having two columns with different vertical heights. Insert a line between the two columns and I think you'll begin to see what is going on. The shorter column will determine the height of the container used for the entire content on the page.
To do what you want, insert a table with one row and two columns. You can expand the table to fill the entire page, and then center the text vertically in the table cells. Remove the borders and it looks exactly like your two columns.
Best Answer
Here's how to do that:
Type your text as you ordinarily would and press Enter. Create a table right below your text. The screen-shot below shows the sample text and tables.
Insert a "Continuous Section Break" between your group of text and tables. To do that, place the text cursor immediately before the text you want to separate into a new section, go to Page Layout tab > Breaks > Continuous.
You now have separated your groups of text and table. Show the non-printing characters to see the inserted section breaks by clicking on Home tab > Paragraph group > Show/Hide or simple press Ctrl+*.
Select a group of text and table and divide it into two columns by clicking on Page Layout tab > Columns > More Columns...
In the Columns dialog box, select either Two, Left or Right and adjust the column widths and distance between columns, then click on OK.
Your text and table will now be in separate columns. Press Enter as necessary to move the table to the second column.
Hide the non-printing characters by clicking on the Show/Hide button. You now have created a table to the right of your text. Output should look like below.