# Formatting Text?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-text/23646>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 20, 2003, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-text/23646 "2003-06-20T15:07:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![onLOoker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@onLOoker](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/onLOoker)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-text/23646/1 "2003-06-20T15:07:30Z")

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Hi, I am putting some text inside a textbox. They are divided in columns by spaces. However, the text in certain columns doesn’t align up vertically. How could I format the text so each column of text align perfectly? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-text/23646/2 "2003-06-20T16:18:05Z")

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Split it into several textboxes, place them next to eachother and then align the text in each box using these buttons :

![](http://users.pandora.be/voetsjoeba/temp/align.jpg)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-text/23646/3 "2003-06-20T16:47:06Z")

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How will I use the scroller to scroll all those textboxes?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-text/23646/4 "2003-06-20T17:40:15Z")

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Hmmm, yeah, good question you’ve got there. Forgot about the scrolling part :-\

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-text/23646/5 "2003-06-20T18:01:09Z")

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So there’s no other way to format the text so it would be aligned perfectly even if they are separated by columns of text?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 4:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-text/23646/6 "2003-06-21T04:35:47Z")

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anyone?