[Roy Dennis]

Perhaps your starter version is limited on the formatting of the pasted table.

Do you not have a copy of Microsoft works on your computer, the word processor that comes with that (Works Word Processor) will open the file Hoster creates with 2 columns just the same as Word, the only thing that fails on is the page title has to be left blank in the songbook dialog.

To try and answer your question about formatting the pasted file in Word. Depending how many pages in your file this is quite a processor intensive operation so edits you make may be slow to process.
After your file is pasted go to the file menu and select page setup and select the margins tab set the left margin to about 1CM if yours is in inches about 1/4", next from the table menu select Table Properties then select the column tab tick the box for preferred width, set the first column to about 4.5 cm press ok and wait it can take a fair time to process all the pages, then repeat the process for the next column, the idea is to get the first 2 columns to take up less than half the page.
Once that has finished processing open the format tab and select columns then select 2 columns and leave it 2 process that.
You should be able to format the text in each column by holding the curser just above the column until you see a little down pointing arrow then left click and it should select the whole column then select format Font.

You can print straight from XL but I don't think you can have extra columns in that.

It all works much easier and quicker with the Word processor and the file Hoster creates.

By the way which version of windows are you using ?
Which version of Hoster ?