Hello, Steve Smith! On 8/28/2002 1:04 PM -0400, you wrote in whole or part:
>Does anyone know of any tricks to use when attempting to format the body of
>an email action. I don't want to use HTML as the content type, I need to
>stay with plain text.
>
>What I'm looking for isn't exactly page layout, I just want to position a
>couple of rows of returned data in columnar format so that one row's data
>falls immediately below the row above. I've tried using tabs but they aren't
>consistent.
>
>Any ideas?

Use the old "pad-with-spaces" trick. You probably can get the max-length of each 
column before starting. Then your "column" is the data + spaces (= Padding - length of 
this data).

Beverly
606-864-0041 x2
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