How to Work With Text Columns in InDesign
Learn how to set up multi-column text frames in InDesign and even span text (such as a headline paragraph) across all the columns.

In this InDesign how-to video, Khara Plicanic demos how easy it is to set up text in columns. She quickly shows how having a multi-column frame is often a better option than a series of single-column frames. Khara then explains how to run paragraphs—like a headline—across multiple columns. She even gives a clever way to remember the Text Frame Options keyboard shortcut!
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This article was last modified on September 4, 2024
This article was first published on September 4, 2024
Nice to see the InDesign Span Columns tool highlighted – I’ve encountered a lot of novice InDesign users that assumed they’d have to put the heading in a separate Text Frame to get the same visual.