Question : Display data on a Form in Columns

Dear Experts

I have a continous form which displays a list of companies and their location. There are some 500 odd companies and what I would like to do is display them in 2 columns on the form

i.e. rather than

Company A   Location A
Company B   Location B
Company C   Location C
Company D   Location D

Display them as

Company A   Location A                              Company B   Location B
Company C   Location C                               Company D   Location D

If there a way of doing this?

Many thanks

Answer : Display data on a Form in Columns

You could perhaps use 2 Subforms, with the Recordsource of each set appropriately ... however, I'm not aware of any builtin convention that would do this for you.

There's always 3rd party grid controls, but that opens up another can of worms.

Or you could work with unbound forms, which would allow you the freedom to do as you wish. Of course, there's the overhead of dealing with those forms, and columnar data is difficult to deal with unless you have a set number of items you always-always-always display.