I AM using courier new, regular,9 in my command window whcih is where I do the SELECT. I think 18 chars is longest
>Do you use a proportional font? If so, try with "Courrier New".
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>Does any of the fields have values bigger than 10 characters?
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>>I thought padr would work but stuck with trying to have 3 cols aligned in:
>>select padr(name,10)+PADR(office,10)+PADR(phone,10) as name from bstkcust order by name
>>but it's misaligned.
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