I have a tab delimited file (coming from excel) and I need to have the columns lined up. My solution has been to increase the tab size to accommodate the longest records. However, I came across this article http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/ on elastic tabstops, which would be a nice feature (if it could be implemented as an option, not a default).
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I have a tab delimited file (coming from excel) and I need to have the columns lined up. My solution has been to increase the tab size to accommodate the longest records. However, I came across this article http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/ on elastic tabstops, which would be a nice feature (if it could be implemented as an option, not a default).
Try saving from Excel as Formatted Text instead of Tab Delimited Text.
There's also the amazing Plugins/TextFX/Line up multiple lines by (,).
Wow, TextFX can really do everything! I hadn't noticed that feature before. Thanks.