depending on the font, spaces can change size, that is to say, the first space may be 5 pixels, but successive spaces are only 2 or 3 pixels! So the result of putting spaces in front of text can be unpredictable.

Minor oops here, my own code used a UDF to put stuff on the page, not a fox tab command! but the concept remains, if you know the length of the first field, you force the second one to contain the correct amount of white space which isn't as simple as counting characters!

Mike