When you convert text to columns or back to regular page-wide text, Word inserts continuous-section breaks into the document each time the column formatting changes.

If you want your Word document looks like a Newspaper or a Newsletter, you can create multiple columns in it and customize the same.

Word will automatically analyze the text separators to determine the number of rows and columns and then format the content into a table.

Use Word 2010's Numbering feature in tables and make it automatically number multiple table columns vertically. This way, each cell in each column will be placed under the correct number.