How do I stretch a memo vertically to size of data band rows

hsm

I have a master band that displays about 9 rows with about 6 memos on each row. (it will always be 9 rows if that's any help)

I want to have one more memo on the left hand side of the data that displays a fixed text heading vertically and extends over all 9 rows.
I've shown an example (produced in Excel) of what I want in the attached picture. Its the heading in yellow I am after.

How can I achieve this?

gordk

Try using a vertical headerband

hsm

Thanks Gordk,
I put one on the page but, depending upon where I put it and where I placed a memo inside it I either got nothing shown at all or got an error 'Unconnected header2"
How do you use vertical header bands?
(I did search the user guide but it does not seem to mention vertical bands at all.)

gordk

there is nothing about vertical bands except the the oldstyle crosstab demo report in the main demo
and something in the usermanual IIRC,
but this may suit your needs better, if the vertical memo is always in the same place on the output page use an overlay band
place the vertical memo in the overlay and set its rotation to suit.
use large height in design mode and place the overlay band after all other bands on the page or it gets nessy when designing.
the over lay is a bit of a miss nomer it is more like an underlay.
the over lay band is processed first and the top of the overlay corresponds to the top of the page.

hsm

gordk wrote: »

there is nothing about vertical bands except the the oldstyle crosstab demo report in the main demo
and something in the usermanual IIRC,
but this may suit your needs better, if the vertical memo is always in the same place on the output page use an overlay band
place the vertical memo in the overlay and set its rotation to suit.
use large height in design mode and place the overlay band after all other bands on the page or it gets nessy when designing.
the over lay is a bit of a miss nomer it is more like an underlay.
the over lay band is processed first and the top of the overlay corresponds to the top of the page.

Thanks gordk, That a good idea.