2-column text in report

[Rb]

I want the text of my report to appear in two columns
(like the newspaper) instead of one column across the
whole page. I tried adjusting the number of columns in
the Page Setup option to 2, but this ends up printing my
report in two columns. Now instead of one complete result
per page, with the text in two columns, I get some of the
text from two different results on one page, neither of
which is complete.

Thanks,

-rb

 

[Fons Ponsioen]

I recommend reading carefully the description given in the
Access help. The intend for the columnar report as I see
it is that the headerpage should include the group header
and the columns only the detail data. You can set the
header to new page before in order to start the new header
data with resultant detail data on a new page.
Hope this helps.
Fons

 

[Kelvin]

The column option isn't meant to split up one record into 2 sections. The
columns tell how many records to show per page. I can think of one work
around, but it isn't very fancy. You can split the text into 2 fields then
populate 2 different boxes with each field. By setting the font to a fixed
sized (like courier) you can tell how many characters will fit in the column
and split the text accordingly. Other then that, I can't think of any other
way to split data according to the size of a box.

Kelvin

 

[Rb]

Ick. You aren't kidding about not fancy, and slightly
over my head, given that I'm new to Access.

Though I can see how splitting the text into sections
would definitely make it easier to intermingle photos with
the text, which is the next thing they're going to ask
for.

Thanks for your help.

-rb