Hi,
I'm using VB 2005 and I have a problem formatting a string when I use the print preview dialog box. I'm using just the vbCrLf character and the Space function to correctly align my data and when I write this data to a textfile, it's formatted the way I want it to be. But when I display it with the print preview dialog, the format is wrong.
I was able to trace the problem to either the Space function or the font. When writing to a file, no font was specified but in the print preview, I used Times New Roman. Also, the space function seems to be returning a white space that is shorter than one character....I' m not really sure about the last part.
Can someone help me out with this?
Preethi
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In most fonts, different characters have different widths.
For example in this reply box:
aaaa
----
Each line contains 4 characters (4 'a's and 4 '-'s) but they are different lengths.
If you use a terminal-type font, all the characters are the same width, but they look funny.
I'm not sure what you can do to solve your problem, but it's probably the difference in whatever default font is used when you view it (like notepad is times new roman I think)
Thanks for your help!
You're right. I think that's what's going on. Is there a different way to align strings to get the same result or do you think I should consider changing the font to something that is like the terminal-type font?
Preethi
Nevermind, I figured it out.
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