>I was wondering if there is a way to display columns of information in an edit box or should I use a grid instead? I am doing SET ALTERNATE TO a text file. And then using ? (questions marks) to create lines of text such as:
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>I have a heading on the form above the editbox such as:
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>NAME START DATE END DATE
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>? mytable.lastname
>?? ', ' + mytable.firstname
>?? ' ' + mytable.startdate
>?? ' ' + mytable.enddate
>?
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>And then I close the ALTERNATE and display the results in an edit box. But I want some of the information such as startdate and enddate to line up in columns.
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>What do you think?

Sounds like a job for a ListBox actually; you can easily specify how to line up columns of data using the ColumnWidth property, and populate it in a number of different ways.

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>Thanks.