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DrewWoods
Qrew Cadet
6 years ago

How can I get a list of text to display in columns rather than one long list?

We're creating a knowledge base and sometimes we have articles that simply list companies that fall under certain categories. At the moment, when we copy a list of these companies, they take up th...
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QuickBaseCoachD
Qrew Captain
One solution would be to not include the whole text of the knowledge base text on the report. I do have a way to allow that field to still be searched, even though it's not on the report.  That way you could use the filter box to filter the results for a key word and still get hits if the text was in the body of that large field.
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DrewWoods
Qrew Cadet
6 years ago
Thanks. That's great to know.

We may implement that for another issue we're working on, but we actually figured out another way to do this.


We went into the source code, and just added CSS inline styles and it worked.

<div style="column-count:3">Company Name<br />
Company Name<br />
Company Name
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</div>