Please help - columns in text box within report?

[Learning :)]

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

 

[Allen Browne]

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.

 

[Learning :)]

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

 

[Rick Brandt]

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

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.

 

[Learning :)]

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!