Sorting Output

I have a table of about 20 Categories. I currently have them displayed accross the page in a table from left to right in 3 columns. like this:

abuse cmecf credit/etc
dismissal presumptions

You will notice the sort runs from left to right. I would like the sort to run vertically like this:

abuse dismissal
cmecf presumptions
credit/etc

I am outputting from an access table into an html table via asp. Does anyone have a trick to get the output the way I want it. Could I populate an array and then output like this:

array(1) array(4) array(7)
array(2) array(5) array(8)