>Are we missing something here because we can't seem to see .NET report writer in rdl or rdlc support for multi-column report similar to multi-column document in MS-Word. VFP's report writer also supports multi-columns, and wondering why not in .NET?

I don't think there is an easy way to do multiple columns outside of a table.

This may be of help..

http://blogs.msdn.com/chrishays/archive/2004/07/23/HorizontalTables.aspx