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Text formatting: allow multi column control

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08-05-2025 03:10 AM
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BillSands
Emerging Contributor

This one is relatively simple: When adding a text box to a panel, particularly a wide panel, it would be useful to be able to break the text box into columns of text, to make it simpler to read. Doing it in a single text box with columns would give more scope for re-sizing the text box and auto fitting the text into the columns if it gets smaller. Here's a sample:
Text columns.jpg

This particular example is from hand formatted text within Business Analyst Online, so it had to be split into two text boxes manually. If we wanted to re-format the information into a different location, the text would need to be put back into a single text block before working out how to re-format it manually.

The purple outline would be the whole text box. The purple line in the middle indicates the division into two columns, and the yellow arrow indicates the continuation of the text.