After displaying your report or printing it out for the first time, you may want to add a "spacer" column. A "spacer" column is a column that consists of spaces only. All numeric columns are right justified and all alphanumeric columns are left justified. Spacer columns are particularly useful when inserted between a numeric column and an alphanumeric column.

To add a spacer column, you must add or insert a formula column (field #132). Designate the width of the spacer column in the Column Width field. In the formula line, enter a single quote followed by a blank space followed by another single quote (i.e., ' ').

Note: The Tabs3 Report Writer automatically places 1 blank space between columns. If you currently have one blank space between two columns and you add a spacer column of 3 characters, you will end up with 5 characters between the two columns (i.e., there is a blank space both before and after the spacer column).