A: 

Okay, I figured it out - when they say Report Properties, they don't mean the Report Properties dialogue that you might think. click on a blank region of the report to select the Report object, then pop up the Properties pane and you'll see a "Columns" property which you can adjust. Whew!

Barry Fandango  2010-02-18 04:09:59

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