Multi-Column Report Issue

[#1]

I am using the Crystal Reports edition bundled with Visual Studio 2005. I have a problem with a multi-column report. It is a two column member directory with family members. It lists the member name, contact info, spouse, and children. I want each family group to stay together, and not break cross a column or a page. Each group may have from 3 to a dozen or so lines.

The family groups will not break across a page (which is good), but they will break across a column (bad). I have tried many combinations of settings to make this work without success.

So I wonder if anyone has seen and resolved this problem, or if perhaps it works better in the full version of Crystal.

[ray_novak]

I have applied those steps (with the exception that the report requires 'Down, then Across') with no luck.

I tried it with 'Across, then Down' just to see what would happen, and the result was the same.

[Former Member]

Hi

- Try suppressing all the blank sections from Section expert.

- Also you can suppress the null values.

- manually put the fields one below other like:

database field1

database field2

rather than :

database field1 database field2

- check the option for "format with multiple columns" Across then down as mentioned earlier.

Hope this helps!!

Regards

Sourashree