How to put words on both left and right sides of document?

I'm trying to, essentially, split my paper in half. I want to have my stuff looking like this:

Demand for more credits, community service,                                           In a society that constantly tells it's youth they must have the highest pay check and

and better grades runs many high schoolers ragged.                                newest car to be happy, why wouldn't this be the case?

For many anything but the best is simply unexceptable.

That's simply some sample text I found online, my content is completely different, but it examplifies what I want to do. The only way I could do something like this in Word would be to tab every single line, which would take way too long. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks in advance!

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I'm trying to, essentially, split my paper in half. I want to have my stuff looking like this:

Demand for more credits, community service,                                           In a society that constantly tells it's youth they must have the highest pay check and

and better grades runs many high schoolers ragged.                                newest car to be happy, why wouldn't this be the case?

For many anything but the best is simply unexceptable.

That's simply some sample text I found online, my content is completely different, but it examplifies what I want to do. The only way I could do something like this in Word would be to tab every single line, which would take way too long. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks in advance!

Step 1

Type the following into a WORD document:-

Demand for more credits, community service, it's youth they must have the highest pay check and better upgrades rus many high schoolers ragged. Wouldn't this be the case: Form many anything but the best is simply unnacceptable. In a society that constantly tells

newest car to be happy why

Step 2

1. I am working in Office 2007 so the commands I give below might be different in your version (2013).

With the text in Step 1 do the following:-

Place your cursor immediately to the left of:-

In a society that constantly tells

 - then:-

Page Layout tab

Page Setup group

Click on the drop down arrow beneath:-

Columns

 - then click on:-

More Columns . . .

The window called:-

Columns

 -should open.

2. In the window called:-

Columns

 - click on:-

Two

 - then click:-

OK

At this point the cursor should be blinking to the left of:-

In a society that constantly tells

Step 3

3. Still in the tab called:-

Page Layout

 - click on the drop down arrow to the right of:-

Breaks

 - then click on:-

Column

Your text should now appear exactly as you have stated in your posting.

If my comments have assisted please vote as helpful.

Thanks.

 

PS This might help:-

 

Insert A Column Break In WORD 2013

 

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If you're adding notes to existing text, you need to use a two-column table (text in one column, notes in the other); it doesn't have to have borders. You can start a new row whenever you want text in both columns to be aligned. Insert a table from the Insert tab.

If you just want to have two columns so that you don't waste space with short paragraphs, then the solution is snaking (newspaper-style) columns. Select multiple columns in the Page Setup group on the Page Layout tab.

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