Creating tables within Crystal Reports

I use Crystal Reports within C#.NET and I want to create multicolumn tables to present my data. Problem I have is that there is just no "table" component in the designer, I can only draw lines - and that's enought to create table.

However it seems to be very not flexible - creating tables just by lines - it leads to problem with adding new columns, because then you have to manuall开发者_JAVA技巧y changes position of all the columns on the right from the one created?

How this problem can be solved?

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You should experiment with cross-tabs (right click->insert cross-tab). With a cross-tab, you can only show summarized data (i.e. no text), but it is very flexible with the number of columns.

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That's one of the things you have to live with, when using Crystal Reports.

However, if you drag a frame around all the items to the right of the position where you want to insert a new column, you can then drag and drop all of them almost as easily as if you were moving just one of them - this should at least reduce some of the work required.