XPost: alt.os.windows-xp, microsoft.public.windowsxp.general   
   From: lawrence-OmitThisBit-logic@amd-p.com   
      
   "Henry"  wrote in message   
   news:in0h62$r0f$1@dont-email.me...   
   > I'm running WinXP Pro SP3, 2.7GHz CPU, 2G RAM with Textpad as a text   
   > program.   
   >   
   > Is there a way to make the columns stay lined up straight in an ASCII text   
   > editor?  Newsgroups insist on text only submissions, but when I put up a   
   > list of things with more than one column, the outcome is that the columns   
   > don't stay aligned. It doesn't matter if I put the data directly in the   
   > email or attach it to the email, the columns don't stay aligned.   
   >   
   > I'm using Mozilla for email. I tried Outlook on my wifes computer with the   
   > same results.   
   >   
   > Thanks   
   >   
      
   As Nil said, it's the reader rather than the sender who determines how the   
   text is displayed.  In Outlook Express, you select View/Text Size/Fixed to   
   change to a non-proportional font.  Try it on this post.  The list below   
   looks like crap at first, but the columns line up once you've selected a   
   fixed-width font.   
      
   Tests        152  259  28  12363  257   53.51  20827   59.36    39  56   
   ODIs         359  349  37  13288  164   42.58  16510   80.48    30  79   
   T20Is         17   16   2    401   98*  28.64    302  132.78     0   2   
   First-class  255  436  55  21332  257   55.98     73   94      270   0   
   List A       431  421  50  15644  164   42.16     34   94      187   0   
   Twenty20      22   21   2    460   98*  24.21    375  122.66     0   2   
      
   --   
   Lawrence   
   "In the outside world I am a simple geologist, but in here I am Falcor,   
   Defender of the Alliance." - Randy Marsh - 4 October 2006   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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