Tabstops Question

Jan Schenkel janschenkel at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 27 17:04:42 EST 2005


--- John Miller <johnmiller1950 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Greetings All,
> 
> Is there a way to set a tabstop in a field and then
> enter a numerical 
> value so that the decimal point lines up with the
> tabstop?
> 
> I am working in a regular text field that needs to
> be printed, and we 
> don't want vertical lines showing.
> 
> Thanks,
> John Miller
> 

Nope, your best bet is to use a fixed-width font such
as Courier New, and set the alignment of the field to
"right".
Here's hoping that one day we'll get the chance to set
the direction of individual tabstops and that decimal
alignment will be one of the options !

Jan Schenkel.

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