Help with simple formatting

birtnewbie2014

<p>Hi all,</p>
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<p>I'm brand new to BIRT and I'm trying to figure out how to do some simple formatting for a memo style report. I have a grid with labels in the first column and I would like to plug in the corresponding data fields in the second column. The issue I'm having is that there is too much space between a lot of the columns so the memo looks like this:</p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong>                                                 07/11/2014</p>
<p><strong>Transaction #: </strong>                                  123456789</p>
<p><strong>Requested Bank Transaction Type:</strong>  Withdrawal  </p>
<p><strong>Transaction Approving Official:</strong>          Jane Doe</p>
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<p>I would like for it to look more like this:</p>
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<p><strong>Date: </strong> 07/11/2014</p>
<p><strong>Transaction #: </strong> 123456789</p>
<p><strong>Requested Bank Transaction Type:</strong>  Withdrawal  </p>
<p><strong>Transaction Approving Official:</strong>  Jane Doe</p>
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<p>Can anyone help me fix this (frustrating but probably simple) formatting issue? Thanks so much!</p>

SyN

<p>Hi birtnewbie2014,</p>
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<p>you can try to combine your data to a single column with a "dynamic text" field. Make sure to set the binding of the grid to your data set, then you can address the result fields. The content of the dynamic text field should look something like</p>
<pre class="_prettyXprint">
"Date: " + row["DATE"];</pre>