How to use wmic in order to generate a txt with many columns

Question

I'm using

    wmic qfe get HotFixID >> WindowsUpdateVersion.txt

in order to export a list of KB{num}. I am looking for a command to reshape this list in many columns (3 or 4 columns, .txt or .xls, not important). I have already tried with

   wmic qfe get HotFixID /format:* >> WindowsUpdateVersion.txt

* (every WMIC Stylesheets)
but none of them seem to work properly.
Any ideas?
Thanks so much!

Answer 1

EDITED: to process any trailing lines of less than full lines

This creates file.txt with the ascii data and then writes file2.txt with the 4 columns.

Any lines containing ! will be wrong - if someone wants to apply this in another situation.

@echo off
(
 for /f "skip=1 delims=" %%a in ('wmic qfe get HotFixID') do (
   for /f %%b in ("%%a") do echo %%~b
 )
)>file.txt

setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set a=
set c=
(
 for /f "usebackq delims=" %%a in ("file.txt") do (
  set a=!a! %%a
  set /a c+=1
  if !c! EQU 4 (
     echo !a:~1!
     set a=
     set c=
  )
 )
if not "!a!"=="" echo !a:~1!
)>file2.txt