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If you haven't noticed yet, our contact list is actually on two pages. We've got page 1, which goes all the way down here, and then it goes on to page 2. I think we can fit this all into one page using columns. If we go back here, we can have a column down here and a column down here. There's plenty of room for it. So let's go into Layout Mode and see how that works. We've done columns before. They're under the Layouts menu, Layout Setup. Click on the Printing section and you can say Print in 2 Columns. Simple as that. Let's take a look at how this looks. We'll go into Preview Mode and it's starting to save space. We haven't quite gotten down to one page, but it is saving space, but you see it's putting the two As side by side and if we come down to the Cs, one there, one there, one there, and one there, that's because it's going across first, rather than down first. So let's go back into Layout Mode and see if we can't make this a little bit better, but before we do that, take a snapshot visually of what we have here. See how the body part is what's divided here by the columns and you have this gray part that you're not supposed to put any data into? Well, watch what happens when we change it to down first. It's going to put that dotted line all the way through the subsummary and then we'll have to remember what it looks like on down first and look at how it differs in Preview Mode because it will differ. So we'll go to Layout Setup, Printing, and choose Down First. Now we have not just the body in two columns, but the subsummary part in two columns, so it's not just the difference between going across versus down. There's actually a difference in how the subsummary part works. So let's go into Preview Mode and now you can see it goes down and it actually divides up the subsummary parts and it's much better looking for what we're trying to achieve. In fact, it looks like we got all of the contacts on one page with quite a bit of room to spare here, so we're doing pretty good here. Let's see if we can make even more improvements. What we want to do is I'd like to make all of these fields, these phone fields, lined up. Right now, we just have a standard tab that's every half inch and because the half inch is right here, this one down here can't tab to this tab mark, so we need to put a pre-set tab in here. In fact, we'll take it a little bit further. We'll actually put in not just a pre-set tab, but a tab leader, which is going to make it look really nice. So we're going to come in here. Remember, we have the tab character in here already. Let's view the text ruler and we're going to have to decide right about where we want that tab. Let's say we want the tab right about, oh, let's try it right at the three inch mark. We'll double click on it, change it to a right tab, and then we'll put a fill character in there, a period. We'll click OK, go back into Preview Mode, and see how it looks. That's looking pretty good. What we want to look for is any types of people who have long names and have them fit in there. It looks like this fits perfectly. Now, if we had long names and maybe we tried to do three columns, let's say, and we're trying to fit it all in there, we might have had to go to a smaller font to fit everything in that column, but as you can see, we have plenty of room here. If you eventually get a bigger company and need more space, you might need to go to three columns and a smaller font size here, maybe even one here as well. It all depends, but that could solve the problem for you, for sure. So, the important thing to remember about FileMaker is combining features is really where the power is. We've combined Sub-summary Reports, calculations, columns, tabs, and tab leaders, just to make this contact list look nice and easy to follow. So remember that. Go ahead and think creatively with FileMaker because it'll really help you come up with some good solutions.