The Insert Table option in Microsoft Word, with one row and two columns selected on the grid. A two-columned, single-row table in Microsoft Word, with each column containing text.

Column Setter’s overlay will help you see if your design is lining up with the grid as intended. Once your layout’s context is set, it’s colspan() ’s time to shine.

Your front page could be based on a five column grid while inside pages with ads on a six column. There is no one right way. • To add flexibility you can break the grid down into 10 or 12 columns.

In Microsoft Excel and other popular modern spreadsheet programs, text and numbers are displayed in a rectangular grid of cells. Generally, every cell in a row or column has the same size, so you ...