I've asked this question before, without resolution, but I've learned a lot
more about different sorts of coding since then, and perhaps I can now ask it
more clearly and understand the answer.

I have a report which needs a footer which is designed to have consultants
and their addresses listed side by side at the bottom of the page, each
consultant's name over its address.

Consultants vary on projects and we can have anywhere from 1-5 consultants
on a project.

Because number of columns is something that happens at a page level, I have
not yet succeeded in putting a subreport into a page footer with three
columns while keeping the body of the report at 1 column.  If somebody can
tell me how to get this to work, that would be one method of solving my
problem.

The other way to work around this is to write multiple reports and allow the
end-user to decide how many consultants there are and to choose an
appropriate report accordingly.  This is clumsy but I would settle for it.  
My problem is that I do not understand how to write the subreports so that
each one would choose the "next" consultant.  I can pick first or last, but
not next.  I am convinced that this must be a relatively simple programming
job, but I don't know how to do it.

Thanks