Importing text files with columns

[lwood]

I would like to know if anyone has found a way to import a Word, WordPerfect or Excel file utilizing newspaper type columns into a sheet and have the columns work as they do in word processing program. I want to create a page of general notes in columns that can be edited, preferably with text that will flow from one column to the next as I add to it or delete from it. I am willing to learn a new program if you have found something else that will work other than the three named above. If you have some other solution other than columns created in a text file I would like to hear about that too.