Does anyone know a way to include a tab in a concatenated text
calculation?
I have several situations where it would be nice to have a field of
text that includes tabs so that the beginning letter of various parts
of the calculated field line up. E.g. I have a field that returns a
name and a birthday. I would like the name and birthday values to be
separated by a tab instead of a set number of spaces so that I could
use the List function to give me an output that looks like:
Joe Smith January 1
Sarah Johnson January 20
instead of
Joe Smith January 1
Sarah Johnson January 20
I tried creating a calculation looking at length of the name and
returning a variable number of spaces which I then included in the
calculation--eg Name & Tabcalc & birthday, but that didn't work quite
right--maybe due to the different kerning for different letters (eg an
i perhaps uses less space than m)?
That leaves me out of ideas. Maybe it isn't possible, but if it is, I
would like to know how to do it.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Sue
