Display data on mutiple columns ina text box

[josemauricio]

Hello every one!

I wanna know if it's possible to display an information embedded on a text box on several columns, like word does. For instance, if the data in the text box is displayed like this:
1
2
3
4
5
6

I'd like to have on my report the data displayed like that:
1 4
2 5
3 6

Does anyone have any clue how can I do this?

 

[Crowley16]

don't think it's possible with a text box, what's wrong with using a tablix?

fyi, in word, it uses a table to do that sort of thing as well, unless you're using tab spaces, but that's still kinda using tables...

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[josemauricio]

Well, the information brought is from one column in a select statment, like SELECT X FROM Y. The text box in the report shows just the information of column X. But, as there is too much information, I'd like to display that information split on more then one column.

In the word you can set your document to be written on more than one column per page without using tables, like in the picture attached.

Hope someone can help.

 

[Crowley16]

yeah, don't think it's possible to do something like that natively...

off the top of my head, maybe modify the sql to construct some sort of column number and then use that in a table...


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[josemauricio]

Ok, I've already thought something like that, but I was just checking if there's some other possible solution.

Thanx anyway.