How to Add Columns in Notion: Easy 5 Step Guide

In this tutorial, we will show you How to add columns in Notion.

You must have come across various Notion templates with multiple columns in them. How do they do it? How to Add columns in Notion. Let’s find out.

To add Columns in Notion follow the below Steps

Create your page in Notion where you want to add a Column or use an existing page.
Move the cursor in front of Text which you want in a column
Now drag the text anywhere on the page
As soon you start dragging the context a blue line will appear which will show the direction where the text will go.
A vertical blue line will appear which indicates a column is being created. Drop your text in front of the blue line.

How to Add Columns in Notion : Step by step Guide

Let’s go through the above-mentioned steps in detail.

Step 1: Create your page in Notion where you want to add a Column or use an existing page.

Step 2: Move the cursor in front of Text which you want in a column

Step 3: Now drag the text anywhere on the page in this example we are moving it on the right-hand side

Step 4: As soon you start dragging the context a blue line will appear which will show the direction where the text will go.

Step 5: A vertical blue line will appear which indicates a column is being created.Drop your text in front of the blue line

Now you will see your text in a column. Wasn’t that Super easy 🙂

Similarly, you can add other text in a column

How do you divide columns in notion?

Dividing our text into columns helps us to separate and manage our content efficiently. It gives us a better overview of the overall Notes or ideas.

By default, Notion doesn’t come with any specific feature to divide columns in notion.

You can divide columns in notion following the below steps.

Step 1: Start Notion and Open a Page where you want to divide the Column

Step 2: Move your mouse on the plus sign as shown below.

Step 3: Once you click on the plus sign, you will see the basic block option.

Step 4 : Scroll through the basic blocks and select “Quote” Option

Step 5: Once you Select the Quote option, you will see a vertical line inserted in your text area.

Step 6: To create a bigger Vertical line.Press Shift+Enter key

Other FAQs

How to add Columns in Notion ipad ?

As of now, the Notion app for Ipad doesn’t provide any option to add columns to a page. Instead, you can add the Columns using Notion for Web using Safari, Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla, Brave browsers by following the steps described in the above article.

How to add rows in Notion ?

You can add a new item to your table in a variety of ways.

Hover over any row and click the + that appears. This adds a new row beneath it.
At the top right, click the blue New button. This adds a new row to the top of the screen and turns it into a page.
To add a new row to your table, go to the bottom and click Add New.
If you press shift + enter while in the last row of your table, a new one will emerge.

Limitations of Columns with Pages in Notion?

Notion users often complain about the unavailability of formatting options while adding a column.

You also don’t have the option to align your text to the left or right and adjust the column width as you have in other software.

Although you have a drag and drop feature for all kinds of activities it takes a lot of time to get the correct format and fix the alignment.

How to end a Column in the Notion ?

Simply drag the content down until the horizontal blue line covers the entire width of the content to break it out of a column.

You can then drag other items to the right or left of that block to create a new set of columns.

We hope this tutorial on How to add columns in Notion was helpful.