Vice versa can be done; see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/FtnoteSpanColumns.htm.
You can have multiple *tabbed* columns for the footnotes, using hidden
paragraph marks, but it doesn't gain you anything because Word still allows
just as much space for the footnotes as if they were stacked.

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> Is there any way to create text one coulmn and footnotes two coulmns or vs.?
> (and why not?)