{"id":1985,"date":"2011-02-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vm-officeblogs.cloudapp.net\/2011\/02\/03\/undo-columns-in-a-word-document\/"},"modified":"2022-07-01T08:27:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T15:27:38","slug":"undo-columns-in-a-word-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2011\/02\/03\/undo-columns-in-a-word-document\/","title":{"rendered":"Undo columns in a Word document"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You won&#8217;t find an undo command to return your document to a single-column format in Word 2010.<\/p>\n<p>But you can undo multiple columns in a document by clicking the <strong>Page Layout<\/strong> tab, clicking <strong>Columns<\/strong>, and then clicking <strong>One<\/strong> to reformat your entire document as one column.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Undo columns\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/b\/microsoft-word\/archive\/2011\/02\/03\/undo-columns-in-a-word-document.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" title=\"Undo columns\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/migrated-images\/45\/8715.UndoColumns.jpg\" alt=\"Undo columns\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you have Word tips or tricks to share? 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