Help with report column formatting

Hi,
Simple question .... I have a report that has some fairly large text columns, and I want to fit the report onto one screen. Does anybody know how you can change the width of the column of a report, and get the text to wrap round within that cell ?
thanks
Tim

Tim,
You could change the display type of the longer fields to be text areas.
You may also want to look at Carl AJAX app which has a feature which hides/shows detail data without the page being refreshed.
http://htmldb.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=11933:22
Select the HTMLDB and Javascript -> AJAX and DHTML -> AJAX -> Show Report with Detail option.
Hope this helps
Chris

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> it lays out perfectly fine in firefox as expected. For
some reason IE6 seems
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anyone give me a tip as
> to what's wrong here before I trash this whole idea and
go with a old fashioned
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>
> 2 columns.
> 15px left and right margins on the "left" column, 470px
wide
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>
>
>
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