Please help - columns in text box within report?

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I'm new to Access, so will appreciate any help I can get. I have a text box
within a report that I would like to show as 2 columns. Is this possible,
and if so can anybody show a novice how??? :) Thanks much
 
A text box cannot have multiple columns.

You could fudge it by padding with spaces if you use a fixed-width font, but
it would be simpler to use a list box.
 
Thanks so much for the quick reply... and leading me toward where i want to
be. I did try changing my text box to a list box, but being a newbie, I'm
not familiar with these. When I did this, my data, which is set as a memo
field, didn't show up. I had changed it to 2 columns in the properties box,
and initially saw the divider in the report to appear as 2 columns. I have
played with my row source type & row souce settings in the properties box,
but i can't seem to get it to pull up my field. Does this need to be set as
something other than a memo, or am I overlooking something else obvious?
Thanks again for being patient with a novice :)
 
Learning :) said:
Thanks so much for the quick reply... and leading me toward where i want to
be. I did try changing my text box to a list box, but being a newbie, I'm
not familiar with these. When I did this, my data, which is set as a memo
field, didn't show up. I had changed it to 2 columns in the properties box,
and initially saw the divider in the report to appear as 2 columns. I have
played with my row source type & row souce settings in the properties box,
but i can't seem to get it to pull up my field. Does this need to be set as
something other than a memo, or am I overlooking something else obvious?
Thanks again for being patient with a novice :)
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A two column ListBox is used for displaying one field per column and one record
per row. It doesn't sound like you have that.
 
Okay, thanks. That makes sense as to what I saw when i tried it. I was just
trying to save some space vertically by get the text into columns, but it
sounds like that might not be feasible :(( Thanks so much for the help!
 
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